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These two things are inwardly connected: the hardening tendency which comes to expression in the formation of the teeth and the tendency towards softening where something must be kept back, something that the etheric body—which becomes free at the seventh year—needs for its development. The two are connected.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Myths and Symbols","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-21","location":null,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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