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At the end of an essay he wrote: ‘Finally we cannot avoid at least a brief discussion of ...’ [ *Gap in report*]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIV","site_heading":"Spiritual Striving and the Poison of Untruthfulness","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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