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FERDINAND REINECKE: May a simple human child, who has always been far from the threshold of your place of wisdom, be allowed to ask why this place needs protection, what Thomasius can proclaim. If it is the truth, it will find its way. Even if it must do without such protection. One will only truly recognize its power when it must prevail on its own.
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