8. What is Mortal in Man?

GA 64/1915-02-26/p047 ·1915-02-26 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Such a victory of the German spirit must emerge from these painful times, in the face of the onslaught of all enemies of the German spirit, that, by virtue of the other purposes of the German people, it can also fulfill what springs from the words with which the most German, but at the same time the most profound poetry of mankind concludes – which sounds like a victory cry against all materialism, like the herald's call before every spiritual world view: “The transitory is not the permanent”. At the end of “Faust” we are met with what sounds like a true motto of a truly spiritual world view: “All that is transitory is only a parable”.

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