III. Earthly Knowledge and Celestial Insight. Man as a Citizen of the Universe and Man as an Earthly Hermit.
GA 221/1923-02-09/p018
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You see, the person who felt this mood at a time of great significance for the development of world views was the young Goethe. And the expression of what he felt is what he wrote in the first form that he gave to his “Faust”.
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