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Revealed religion is manifested religion, because in it God has become wholly manifest.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Volume 1 (1827)

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Lectures on the philosophy of religion, together with a work on the proofs of the existence of God. Translated from the 2d German ed. by E.B. Speirs, and J. Burdon Sanderson: the translation edited by E.B. Speirs. Published 1895 p. 84-85

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