"Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made sharper divisions between the sciences inevitable, and once the increasingly complex machinery of the state necessitated a more rigorous separation of ranks and occupations, then the inner unity of human nature was severed too."
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Friedrich Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man, Sixth Letter
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Friedrich Schiller
1759 – 1805
deutscher Dichter und Schriftsteller
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