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It was reported that Hausner was ironed out flat! In truth, however, it was a marvellous speech, highly spiced and full of poignancy. And this speech, I would have you note, pointed in the direction of the West.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"F. Bacon, Comenius, Marx, Engels, Otto Hausner","site_heading":"Karma Across Centuries: Harun al-Rashid to Amos Comenius","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1924-04-06","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/236/1924-04-06/p040","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by M. Cotterell, C. Davy and D.S. 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