{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-01-21/p056","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this makes us understand, in a certain forceful way, illness and death. We can understand that we could not have life as we have it; if this life did not itself provoke death; as one could not have the flame if the fuel were not destroyed. Certain increases, intensifications are not possible without the possibility of illness. Sometimes strong health is the result of illness. Perhaps you will say: nature is healthy in all its parts, and even if it gives disease, it gives it to have much and strong life. In any case, it is clear that nature is everywhere, and it has, that is true, invented death in order to have much life, to have strong life, to have life. Because this can only exist if it creates death as its opposite pole.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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