Thirteenth Lecture

GA 254/1915-11-07/p025 ·1915-11-07 · 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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Our view also lends credence to the long-held belief that the moon is an excrement and, so to speak, sputum of the earth, which it has vomited out, probably after becoming overloaded. At least this explains very satisfactorily why so little iodine is now found on earth, for when a lot of bile has been broken away, the stomach becomes clean.

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