In the theory we are offering, since knowledge is
by intuition and perception, not
by abstraction of only part of the singular real, this ultimate universalism of the nature as sort or species, is said to be a singular real and also a concept
defined within a distinct limit of formal variability, both as real, and also as concept.
But if this feeling was to mean anything, it had to be
defined or fenced in
by criteria; so in On Religion Schleiermacher
defined the feeling as an
intuition of the whole and in The Christian Faith Schleiermacher
defined the feeling as absolute dependence.