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But I think that many souls will continue to choose the easier way for a long time to come, accepting what they like, for example, in the words of Fichte, but reading right over the things they do not like. And when one points this out to them, they will say: Well, great minds are allowed to be contrary in certain respects. And then they make such comparisons that are not taken from reality at all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"The Four Members and Cosmic-Astral Correspondences","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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