Cultural Evolution Embodied in Architectural Symbols

We must therefore expect that there is an intimate relationship between the culture of the intellectual soul and the culture of the ego. One cannot imagine a more appropriate form for this relationship in human beings — it goes without saying that one cannot, but one must say it nonetheless, because it draws attention to what is important — one cannot imagine a more appropriate form than the Central European philosopher Leibniz and his relationship to French culture. Leibniz, who is so immediately Central European in his intellectual character, who transfers everything he accepts from outside — for example, from Giordano Bruno, who embodies the Italian soul of feeling so completely — into Central Europe, Leibniz wrote in French; he shaped much of his philosophy in the way required by the form of the French language.