The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews was published early in 1909, and before the

year was out its author was being requisitioned by dissidents from Christianity

of the most incongruous types as a promising instrument for the general

anti-christian propaganda. Few more remarkable spectacles have ever been

witnessed than the exploitation throughout Germany in the opening months of

1910 of this hyper-idealistic metaphysician, disciple of von Hartmann and

convinced adherent of the “Philosophy of the Unconscious,” by an Alliance the

declared basis of whose organization is a determinate materialism. As, under

the auspices of the Monistenbund, he

made his progress from city to city, lecturing and debating, he drew a

tidal-wave of sensation along with him. A violent literary war was inaugurated.

It seemed as if all theological Germany were aroused.