I. The Goal of Knowledge 1 This chapter was moved to 'Appendix II' by Rudolf Steiner for the second edition of 1918 in a slightly revised form.

Again, we do not want any knowledge that has encased itself once and for all in hide bound formulas, and which is preserved in Encyclopædias valid for all time. Each of us claims the right to start from the facts that lie nearest to hand, from his own immediate experiences, and thence to ascend to a knowledge of the whole universe. We strive after certainty in knowledge, but each in his own way.