Lecture Four

Now these facts should not astonish us, for other things too are out of harmony to-day, and our age is the age of great disharmonies, great discrepancies, with opposing sides coming into direct conflict. If nowadays some article on the matters that are lectured about here comes into the hands of a man who is numbered among the “clever” folk, he will say: “It is remarkable to find all this appearing in our time; it is quite out of keeping with the present day.” For he considers that his own outlook is the only one suited to the times; anything else he regards as out of place. To-morrow and the day after we shall be discussing how all this, if it does not harmonise with the sense-world, is nevertheless in harmony with the supersensible.