De l'Allemagne's fourth and last Partie, ‘La Religion et l'enthousiasme’, fills less than one-seventh (151) of the 1813 edition's 1,196 pages. But despite this Partie's brevity, the issues it raises have at least three claims to special attention. First, Staël gave these issues a separate section. Second, she put them at the end; unlike a dictionary or encyclopaedia, De l'Allemagne has some narrative structure, and a narrative's dynamics give closing chapters special importance. Third, that last Partie is not a fence the passions lie beyond; enthousiasme is used from the outset (1 68/2), and the whole text is full of these issues. As Staël says in listing her four Parties, ‘ces divers sujets se mêlent nécessairement les uns avec les autres’ (1 22/5). Indeed, De l'Allemagne's greatness lies in the scope and coherence with which it overrides and ignores previous distinctions: ‘une des causes de l'affaiblissement du respect pour la religion, c'est de l'avoir mise à part de toutes les sciences, comme si la philosophie, le raisonnement, enfin tout ce qui est estimé dans les affaires terrestres ne pouvait s'appliquer à la religion’ (IV 56/10).