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People do not want to become universally human, and this is especially the case with those who are predisposed to unite themselves with geographic outstreamings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","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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Aber Sie sehen: Vorurteil über Vorurteil wird sich natürlich erheben. Denn wie könnte man anders denken, als daß Erkenntnisse auch anfangen würden, parteiisch zu werden! Aber das war mit einer der Gründe, die eigentlich zu den Feigheiten gehören, warum gewisse okkulte Brüderschaften mit diesen Dingen zurückgehalten haben. 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