An Age of Expectation

And even the beginnings of this inner ability to transform were already apparent. For just as Herman Grimm spoke, for example, about Michelangelo, Raphael, Homer, Tacitus, Shakespeare, Voltaire, especially in the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the way in which he the way he knew how to bring Emerson's writings to life in the 1850s shows us something of the transformability that the serious part of humanity strives for and which can now find its fulfillment in spiritual science. And spiritual science must give precisely that which can become the most personal for each person, so that human feeling becomes the broadest, the very broadest, but in return also the most intense.