On the Connection of the Living and the Dead
GA 168/1916-11-09/p034
·1916-11-09
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Let us not imagine that our views and conceptions of life grow out of nothing—or that they arise anew in every age. They grow from the soil in which our own soul is rooted, which soil is in truth identical with the sphere of activity of human beings who died long ago.
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