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On this polarity, in the last resort, his Theory of Colour is also founded, of which we shall be speaking in more detail in the next few days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Centric and Cosmic Forces: Rethinking Nature's Foundations","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. 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