Liebig, formed the connection between the two laboured attacks on the
founder of English philosophy.

Much of that which at any time was unhistoric or presumptive in his mind
may be ascribed to this influence; and it divided him from Moehler, who
was far before him in the fulness of the enjoyment of his powers and his
fame, whom he survived half a century, and never ceased to venerate as
the finest theological intellect he had known. The publication of the
_Symbolik_ made it difficult for the author to remain in Wirtemberg;
Tuebingen, he said, was a place where he could neither live nor die
happy; and having made Doellinger's acquaintance, he conceived an ardent
wish to become his colleague at Munich.

Im Verkehre mit Ihnen, und dem Kreise in dem Sie leben, habe ich mich
aufs anmuthigste erheitert, sittlich gestaerkt, und religioes getroestet
und ermuthigt gefunden; ein Verein von Einwirkungen auf mich wuerde
mir gewaehrt, deren aller ich in fast gleichein Grade beduerftig war.

Doellinger negotiated his appointment, overcame the resisting ministerial
medium through the intervention of the king, and surrendered his own
department of theology, which they both regarded as the most powerful
agency in religious instruction. Moehler had visited Goettingen and
Berlin, and recognised their superiority. A public address to Planck,
praising the Protestant treatment of history, was omitted by Doellinger
from the edition of his miscellaneous writings. They differed so widely
that one of them hesitated to read Bossuet's _Defensio_, and generally
kept the stronger Gallicans out of sight, whilst the other warmly
recommended Richer, and Launoy, and Dupin, and cautioned his pupils
against Baronius, as a forger and a cheat, who dishonestly attributed to
the primitive Church ideas quite foreign to its constitution. He found
fault with his friend for undue favour to the Jesuits, and undue
severity towards Jansenism. The other advised him to read Fenelon, and
succeeded in modifying this opinion.

Sie werden vielleicht um so geneigter sein, mir zu verzeihen, wenn
ich Ihnen melde, dass ich inzwischen recht fleissig die
Jansenistischen Streitigkeiten, durch Ihre freundliche Zuschrift
angeregt, studirt habe, und Ihrer Darstellung ohne Zweifel jetzt weit
naeher stehe als frueher. Selbst die Bulle Unigenitus erscheint mir in
einem weit guenstigeren Lichte als frueher, obschon ich die Censur
mancher Quesnel'sc