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This becomes a steady conviction in the soul so that one learns to treat the hostility against it as Goethe said to the deniers of movement in his *Zahme Xenien III (collection of sayings)*. Goethe answered out of common sense. One cannot easily disprove this view philosophically.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. 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