[6 THE REVOLUTION
Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” While our own poets were almost all carried away by the enthusiasm of the time, Bilderdijk, the one great Dutch poet of the time, and perhaps of the century, who was closely connected with the religious movement called the Révez'Z, which we have presently to consider, was inspired all his life by a fierce hatred of revolutionary ideas. In 1796 the National Church was disestablished, and the theological faculty in the Universities was absorbed in a philosophical faculty, from which the subject of dogmatics was excluded. A few years later the theological faculty was placed on its former footing, and remained thus until its reorganisation in 1876, when dogmatics was again excluded from the faculty, and handed over to the Church to be taught within the walls of the University and at the cost of the State. In 1816, when the Orange family was restored, the Church was reorganised, without, however, regaining its former privileged position.
Besides that of Van der Palm, who became Professor of Semitic Languages at Leiden,
