III. Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World

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When we turn to physical chemistry the matter already becomes less difficult. There one could not talk so glibly about simple division. The chemist divides water into hydrogen and oxygen, \(H_2O\); the natural scientist will not simply divide water in an abstract sense into two parts, hydrogen and oxygen.

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