32. This telling phrase is the work of Isaiah Berlin, The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism, ed. Henry Hardy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), 5; Berlin refers us to the letter of 26 August 1774 to Herder, though it is unclear to me how Berlin’s phrase, for all its aptness to the point at issue, can be distilled from Hamann’s letter. See Hamann, Briefwechsel, III: 104.