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GA 132/1911-10-31/p022 ·1911-10-31 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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You see, what the ordinary intellect cannot reach is for us precisely the most important. Even though the ordinary intellect produces something as excellent as The History of Philosophy by Schwegler, (for I have expressly called this a good book) it is only an example by which we must see how a splendid intellect is completely at a standstill before a spirit such as Jacob Boehme.

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