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FRANZISKA GLAUBENSWEIS: It seems to me inappropriate that we waste time here with such talk. What Thomasius has done should cause souls to rejoice in their depths. If they did not do so, they would only show that dullness accompanies external progress and that all insight is helpless in the face of the comfortable mind that degrades man to an irrational creature.
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