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What is Nature? An encyclopedical, systematic Index or Plan of our Spirit. Why will we content us with the mere catalogue of our Treasures? Let us contemplate them ourselves, and in all ways elaborate and use them.

— Novalis Attributed Novalis (1829)

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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