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There you have a word that leads ideas to the hunt:
The intellects of an unimportant era face a large and difficult task. All the life of the mind stands in the closest relation to Reality, and draws from it the strongest part of its impulses. When reality is torn apart in an extreme frenzy, when events tumble over one another like thunderclaps it is harder than in quieter times to balance out the measure of personality and establish the orbit of which one can grow up as a self-possessed presence. What may be called the school of the intellect is missing...
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