An Age of Expectation

GA 156/1914-10-07/p044 ·1914-10-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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My dear friends! Humanity has long aspired to harmonize life with the spiritual worlds, to find a community like ours. And there were endeavors that knew how to present themselves in the right way to all the peoples of the earth and to the peace of humanity, that knew how to express the attitude that also wanted to express itself. Homer, according to Herman Grimm's view for the Greek peoples: that peace is more dear to them than war. And so mankind should one day get to know how many people held the views I have described in Herman Grimm, how they were intimately connected with the soul, how there was an effort to maintain life from one source, and how surprising the outbreak of this war, which was really not wanted by such views, was.

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