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30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Emile Rigolage 09 Apr 1898,

Emile Rigolage has just published the second volume of his carefully crafted excerpt from Auguste Comte's writings under the title "La Sociologie par Auguste Comte" (Bibliothöque de Philosophie contemporaine, Paris, Felix Alcan).
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Karl Jentsch 11 Jun 1898,

Leipzig 1898 Under this title, Karl Jentsch has just published a book. The application of the scientific way of thinking of our time to the development of mankind leads to this concept.
While others, such as Huxley, Alexander Tille and so on, understand the progress of mankind in the same way as the rest of nature in the sense of Darwinism, Jentsch does not believe he can do without the assumption of a purposeful arrangement of historical facts.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Paul Nikolaus Cossmann 30 Dec 1899,

Coßmann believes that organic natural science should incorporate teleology, he must be told that he does not understand the relationship of modern natural science to teleology. A locomotive is undoubtedly purpose-built, and Mr.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Heinrich V. Schoeler 06 Jan 1900,

For a century, the proud-sounding word has been uttered again and again: Kant had liberated thinking humanity from the shackles of philosophical dogmatism, which made empty assertions about the essence of things without undertaking a critical investigation into whether the human mind was also capable of making out something absolutely valid about this essence.
No supporter of the modern scientific world view need contradict this conclusion. For those who understand the modern theory of development, it is a necessary consequence of it. H. v. Schoeler would have found proof of this if he had added to the wealth of knowledge he has acquired the knowledge of my "Philosophy of Freedom" published five years ago.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Goethe and Medicine 13 Jan 1901,

Once again, it was the physicians from whom he drew his most important inspiration. He studied anatomy in depth under the guidance of Court Councillor Loder. A manuscript he left behind (now published in Volume VIII of the Weimar Goethe Edition) shows how he pursued this science entirely in the spirit of a rational comparative method.
But this preoccupation also caused the poet to develop a deep understanding of medical science. The nature of this understanding is shown clearly enough by a description he gives in "Dichtung und Wahrheit" of the medical movement of the seventies of the last century.
A part of the letter to him is printed in Goethe's works under the title "Plastic Anatomy". Here he mentions that this "plastic anatomy" has been practiced in Florence for many years and adds the remark: "But should one not immediately think of Berlin when calling for such a location, where everything - science, art, taste and technology - is together and therefore a highly important, admittedly complicated undertaking could be carried out immediately by word and will?"
30. Goethe as the Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics 09 Nov 1888,

He completely excluded the plastic arts from his sphere of research, thus showing clearly that he had no conception whatever of Art; and, besides, he knew no principle other than that of the imitation of Nature, which again shows that he never understood the task which the spirit of man sets itself in the creation of the work of art.1 [ 7 ] That the science of the Beautiful only came into existence so late is no accident.
Goethe finds that ‘nothing in Nature is beautiful which is not also naturally true, in its underlying motive’ (Conversations with Eckermann, iii. 79). And the other side of appearance or semblance, when the being excels its own self, we find expressed as Goethe's view in the proverbs in prose, No. 978: ‘The law of vegetable growth appears in its highest manifestation in the blossom, and the rose is but the pinnacle of this manifestation.
Only when this tendency becomes the common property of all who strive spiritually; when the belief becomes general that we have not only to understand Goethe's conception of the world, but that we must live in it and it must live in us—only then will Goethe have fulfilled his mission.
30. Truth and Verisimilitude in a Work of Art 27 Aug 1898,

Why is the greatest fame gained by the actor who most perfectly expresses the feelings, who comes closest to truth in dialogue, posture, gesticulation, who cheats me into believing that what I am beholding is not an imitation but the thing itself?” The attorney for the artist undertakes to argue that all this is far from justifying the spectator in demanding that persons and events on the stage must be so presented as to seem actual.
If one could succeed to the extent of showing the ape that pictures of beetles are not to be eaten, the ape would never understand why pictured beetles exist at all—since they cannot be eaten. So it is with the aesthetically uncultivated. It may be possible to bring him to the point of seeing that a work of art is not to be treated like something for sale in the market. But, since he would still understand only such a relationship as he can acquire to things he finds in the market, he will fail to see the reason for the existence of a work of art.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 220. Letter to Rudolf Steiner 03 Nov 1924, Dornach

I firmly believe that your thoughts helped us. It was a daring undertaking. — I also wanted to collect reviews for you and couldn't manage it. Tomorrow morning we'll continue our journey and today there is still so much to be done.
Warmest Marie 39. Was later performed at the Goetheanum, but not under Marie Steiner's direction.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 221. Telegram to Marie Steiner in Kassel 05 Nov 1924, Dornach

Show German 221 Telegram from Dornachbrugg to Marie Steiner in Kassel Postscript: recorded on 5/11 1924 Kind thoughts for further activity, here satisfying under the circumstances, sincerely Rudolf Steiner
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 222. Letter to Rudolf Steiner 08 Nov 1924, Dornach

It is a focal point of the highest interest - in terms of cultural history. I don't understand how people can come from there and never say anything about it. It is as if all the paths of German development lead back there.

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