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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST LAAS (1837-1885)  , German philosopher, was born on the 16th of
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June 1837 at
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Furstenwalde . He studied
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theology and philosophy under Trendelenburg at Berlin, and eventually became professor of philosophy in the new university of Strassburg . In Kant's Analogien der Erfahrung (1876) he keenly criticized Kant's transcendentalism, and in his chief
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work Idealismus and Positivismus (3 vols., 1879-1884), he drew a 11 clear contrast between
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Platonism, from which he derived transcendentalism, and positivism, of which he considered Protagoras the founder . Laas in reality was a
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disciple of Hume . Throughout his philosophy he endeavours to connect
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meta-physics with ethics and the theory of
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education . His chief educational
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works were Der deutsche Aufsatz in den obern Gymnasialklassen (1868; 3rd ed.,
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part i., 1898, part ii., 1894), and Der deutsche Unterricht auf hohern Lehranstalten (1872; 2nd ed . 1886) . He contributed largely to the Vierteljahrssehr. f. wiss . Philos . (188o–1882) ; the Litterarischer Nachlass, a
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posthumous collection, was published at Vienna (1887) . See Hanisch, Der Positivismus von Ernst Laas (1902); Gjurits, Die Erkenntnistheorie
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des Ernst Laas (1903) ; Falckenberg, Hist. of Mod . Philos .

(Eng. trans., 1895) . LA BADIE,

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JEAN DE (1610–1674), French divine, founder of the school known as the Labadists, was born at Bourg, not far from
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Bordeaux, on the 13th of
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February 161o, being the son of Jean Charles de la Badie, governor of
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Guienne . He was sent to the Jesuit school at Bordeaux, and when fifteen entered the Jesuit college there . In 1626 he began to study philosophy and theology . He was led to hold somewhat extreme views about the efficacy of prayer and the
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direct influence of the
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Holy Spirit upon believers, and adopted Augustinian views about grace,
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free will and predestination, which brought him into collision with his order . He therefore separated from the
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Jesuits, and then became a preacher to the
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people, carrying on this work in Bordeaux, Paris and
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Amiens . At Amiens in 164o he was appointed a
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canon and teacher of theology . The hostility of Cardinal Mazarin, however, forced him to retire to the Carmelite hermitage at Graville . A study of Calvin's Institutes showed him that he had more in
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common with the Reformed than with the
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Roman Catholic Church, and after various adventures he joined the Reformed Church of France and became professor of theology at Montauban in 165o . His reasons for doing so he published in the same
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year in his Declaration de Jean de la Badie . His accession to the ranks of the Protestants was deemed a
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great triumph; no such man since Calvin himself, it was said, had
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left the Roman Catholic Church . He was called to the pastorate of the church at Orange on the Rhone in 16J7, and at once became noted for his severity of discipline .

He set his

face zealously against dancing, card-playing and worldly entertainments . The unsettled state of the country, recently annexed to France, compelled him to leave Orange, and in 1659 he became a pastor in Geneva . He then accepted a call to the French church in
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London, but after various wanderings settled at
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Middelburg, where he was pastor to the French-speaking congregation at a Walloon church . His
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peculiar opinions were by this time (1666) well known, and he and his congregation found themselves in conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities . The result was that la Badie and his followers established a
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separate church in a neighbouring
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town . In 1669 he moved to Amsterdam . He had enthusiastic disciples,
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Pierre Yvon (1646–1707) at Montauban, Pierre Dulignon (d . 1679), Francois Menuret (d . 1670), Theodor Untereyk (d . 16)3), F . Spanheim (1632–1701), and, more important than any, Anna Maria v . Schurman (1607–1678), whose
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book Eucleria is perhaps the best exposition of the tenets of her master .

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head of his separatist congregation, la Badie
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developed his views for a reformation of the Reformed Churches: the church is a communion of holy people who have been born again from sin;
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baptism is the sign and seal of this regeneration, and is to be administered only to believers; the Holy Spirit guides the regenerate into all truth, and the church possesses throughout all time those gifts of prophecy which it had in the ancient days; the community at Jerusalem is the continual type of every Christian congregation, therefore there should be a community of goods, the disciples should live together, eat together, dance together;
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marriage is a holy ordinance between two believers, and the children of the regenerate are born without
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original sin, marriage with an unregenerate person is not binding . They did not observe the
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Sabbath, because—so they said—their
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life was a continual Sabbath . The life and separatism of the community brought them into frequent collision with their neighbours and with the magistrates, and in 1670 they acceptedthe invitation of the princess Elizabeth, abbess of
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Herford in Westphalia, to take up their abode within her territories, and settled in Herford to the number of about fifty . Not finding the rest they expected they migrated to
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Bremen in 1672, and afterwards to
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Altona, where they were dispersed on the
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death of the leaders . Small communities also existed in the Rhineland, and a missionary settlement was established in New York . Jean de la Badie died in February 1674 . La Badie's works include La Prophetic (1668), Manuel de piete (1669), Protestation de bonne foi et same
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doctrine (167o), Brikve declaration de nos sentiments touchant l'Eglise (167o) . See H.
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van Berkum, De Labadie en de Labadisten (
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Sneek, 1851); Max Gebel (1811-1857), Gesch. d. christl . Lebens in der rheinisch-westphalischen Kirche (Coblenz, 3 vols., 1849–186o) ; Heinrich Heppe (1820–1879), Geschichte des Pietismus (
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Leiden, 1879) ; Albrecht Ritschl, Geschichte des Pietismus, vol. i . (
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Bonn, 1880) ; and especially Peter Yvon, Abrege precis de la
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vie et de la conduite et des vrais sentiments de
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feu Mr de Labadie, and Anna Maria v . Schurman, Eucleria (Altona, 1673, 1678) . Cf. the article in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie .

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