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— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn"Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past."
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The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.
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