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Yet despite the amount that has been written about this address by the important physiologist, du Bois-Reymond, many still do not realize that it represents one of the important junctures in the evolution of the modern world view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness, Matter, and the Crisis of Modern Thought","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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