6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

GA 72/1917-11-30/p013 ·1917-11-30 · 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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When questions such as these arise, one very often hears the judgment: History teaches this or that. After all, history is nothing more than a list of events. How can this or that be decided under the influence of today's sad events? – one very often hears the judgment: History teaches this or that. After all, history is nothing more than a list of what people think they know about the course of social life up to the present.

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