Man or Matter / Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought - Ernst Lehrs

^{2 In a comment on a letter Carlyle had written to him, and in a note dealing with the contemporary philosophy in Germany.}

^{3 This observation of Reid's shows that the origin of language is very different from what the evolutionists since Darwin have imagined it to be.}

^{4 Confessions, Book I, Chapter 8.}

^{5 As we have seen, the word had better luck with Goethe.}

^{6 Wordsworth, with all his limitations, had a real affinity with Goethe in his view of nature. Mr. Norman Lacey gives some indication of this in his recent book, Wordsworth's View of Nature.}

^{7 This same period of life played a decisive part in the spiritual evolution of Rudolf Steiner, as may be seen in his autobiography, The Story of My Life.}

^{8 The difference in spelling between the prose and poetry excerpts arises from the fact that whereas we can draw on Miss Wade's new edition of the poems for Traherne's original spelling, we have as yet only Dobell's edition of the Centuries, in which the spelling is modernized.}

⁹ Oxenford's translation.

CHAPTER VII