8. Abstraction and Reality

GA 177/1917-10-13/p004 ·1917-10-13 · 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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The greatest defect and deficiency in our time is that people are literally inclined to think in abstractions. This takes them further away from reality.

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