8. The Elementary World and its Beings

GA 212/1922-05-28_02/p046 ·1922-05-28 · 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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> However, it must be the prophets who are most dismayed by the harsh inviolability of a “ground of given facts.” But he ceases to be a “prophet” in the full sense of the word when he becomes a political philosopher and makes corresponding concessions to this ground.

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