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The most diverse talents are involved in order to make this knowledge fruitful for human spiritual culture in one direction or another. That is precisely what is at stake: the extent to which what can be known can penetrate into all human spiritual development in a healthy way. But in this the talents, the soul directions of the different peoples have their very distinct specificity. Otherwise, how could it be otherwise meaningful to understand that one of the most German minds, Goethe, when he had begun his journey through the world, in order to see not only what was offered to him in the contemplation of art, but also what nature could offer him. How else could it have been possible for him to write to his German friends from Italy: “After all the natural phenomena and facts I have seen in public, I would now most like to take a trip to India - so said Goethe - not to discover it, but to see what I have discovered in my own way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Das sind sie; aber die Art und Weise, wie aus den Seelen, aus den Herzen der Menschen dasjenige spricht, was die Menschen zu sagen haben über Sonne und Mond, diese Art und Weise, sie ist verschieden nach den Begabungen, nach den geistigen Richtungen und Anlagen der verschiedenen Völker. Mit wirken die verschiedensten Begabungen, um dieses Wissen nach der einen oder nach der anderen Seite hin für die menschliche geistige Kultur fruchtbar zu machen. Darauf kommt es eben an, inwiefern dasjenige, was man wissen kann, eindringen kann in die ganze menschliche geistige Entwicklung in gesunder Weise. Darin aber haben die Begabungen, die Seelenrichtungen der verschiedenen Völker ihre ganz ausgesprochene Sonderheit. Wie wäre es sonst sinnvoll zu begreifen, dass einer der deutschesten Geister, Goethe, als er seine Weltenwanderung angetreten hatte, um anzusehen nicht nur dasjenige, was sich ihm in der Kunstbetrachtung darbot, sondern auch dasjenige, was ihm die Natur bieten konnte. 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