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In an age when it is possible to make the truth, conform to any kind of antipathy, passion or instinct, a great deal of effort will be needed in this age to awaken a strong sense for the truth which can then lead to a spiritual life. The details show that this is so.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIII","site_heading":"Spiritual Causes Behind Historical Events and Social Disease","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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