narrow concepts of the philosopher than it can be contained by the narrow laws of the monarch.” [349F-LER: p. 351]
[350F-LER: p. 352]
“Is what is universal to the Christian not individual to a Mohammedan or Hindu? Was what our pious forefathers regarded as the ‘Word of God’ not long ago recognized to be the word of man? (…) What in this time and place passes as ‘individual caprice’ is taken in another time and place for universal law. And what here and now is a subjective, heretical opinion becomes tomorrow or elsewhere a sacred article of faith.” [350F-LER: p. 352]
[351F-LER: p. 353]
[Footnote:] … thought takes the discreteness of reality for a continuum, the infinitely many events of life as one identical event. Knowledge of the essential, ineffaceable difference between thought and life (or reality) is the beginning of wisdom in thought and life.” [351F-LER: p. 353]
[352F-LER: p. 355]
“The higher a man stands in the scale, the more individual he is. The less spirit men have, the lower they stand in the scale, the less they differ among themselves, the less individual they are. (…) For productivity is the essence of nature, the essence of life.” [352F-LER: p. 355]
