  In 1788, Jacobi published a piece in dialogue form in the Deutsches Museum (Jacobi, 1788). He did it in the midst of the notorious Starck affair, and in response to the campaign being waged at the time by the Berlin Aufklärer against the pious religiosity of people like Lavater — a religiosity which they took as a form of crypto-Catholicism, and as an attack on the universal religion of reason which they promoted (Blum, 1912). The dialogue is between a pious believer and an enlightened philosopher. The believer’s main point is that the philosopher has the right indeed to criticize faith. But the believer has just as much right not to accept the philosopher’s portrayal of his faith. The philosopher, moreover, forgets that his philosophy has a history as well; that its past is shrouded in a faith on which it still depends for the meaning of its abstract conceptions. By attacking faith, therefore, the philosopher risks undermining his own world of  meaning.[11]