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Each one had brought with him a divine legacy, as it were; he felt himself to be full of it, and spent it in the service of his family, his clan or his people. That was their mode of active trading and working.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Moral Impulses and Spiritual Sources of Ethics","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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