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And so it has come to pass that, in the most natural way, this thinking, which turns to the purely sensory, has become a habit, that it has also approached the highest religious truths and attempted to comprehend the spirit and its content in the same way that the natural scientist attempts to comprehend external nature with his senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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