6. Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind

GA 163/1915-09-04/p034 ·1915-09-04 · 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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This can be compared to what Goethe described to Eckermann on April 11, 1827, when he said, “I picture the earth with its vapor mantle as a huge living organism involved in an unceasing in- and out-breathing.”[^2] We feel ourselves involved in this. We share in this unique way in the life of the earth.

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