Some writer has pointed out a certain analogy between the sweet Derbyshire Methodist and the gentle Pietist whose confessions form a very curious chapter of 'Wilhelm Meister.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
1738. Brought up in a Pietist school, he became a Freethinker through reading Voltaire.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Have you been to such a-I had nearly written silent-concert, in a Norwegian coast town of somewhat Pietist savour?
"The Bridal March; One Day"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson