Atmospheric Composition, Organ Systems, and Healing Substances

GA 312/1920-04-01/p018 ·1920-04-01 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.

This affords a direct glimpse into the formative process of man. Even in the earliest years of life, there is this interaction between fluorine and magnesium, that is an interaction in which the agents are of a decidedly extra-human character in the constitution of their substance—for during the first years of life, man is mainly a link inserted into the external world. So fluorine comes from the external world, to counteract the centrifugal radiance of the metal.

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