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The material of which the wasp's nest consists is exactly the same as is used in making paper out of rags. Only gradually will it become known how the one or the other achievement of the human spirit is connected with what the group-souls have introduced into the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Whitsun: The Festival of United Soul-Endeavour","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-06-07","location":null,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/98/1908-06-07/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. Osmond and Alan P. 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