Lecture I
GA 158/1914-11-20/p038
·1914-11-20
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English
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The Greeks had nothing like theology in our modern sense, but were very much closer to the wisdom of Nature and the manifestations of Nature. They approached the wisdom of Nature without theology, and questions and riddles pressed in upon them.
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