The young bacchant had an immediate answer.

Phrygians are seen reposing after a festival, bacchants rush in and the wild orgies begin afresh.

But shall I be more like a Bacchant holding the thyrsus in my right hand, or in this?

The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.