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Thus in the nineteenth century it came about that the best men of science, unable to become materialists, declared: We have no alternative but to limit our research to that world which can be investigated by measure, number and weight and by the senses. We have, however, no right to deny a spiritual world, hidden beneath this world of Nature. In such words they indicated that there might be a world full of light, *unknown to man*, where man can only stare into an empty darkness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"18. 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Da kam es, daß im neunzehnten Jahrhundert die besten Naturforscher, die nicht Materialisten werden konnten, sagten: uns bleibt nichts übrig, als *bloß* die Welt zu erforschen, die sich nach Maß, Zahl und Gewicht und durch die Sinne erforschen läßt; aber wir haben kein Recht, eine geistige Welt zu leugnen, die sich hinter dieser sinnlichen verbirgt. 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