"Should there not be manifest progress and development but in a higher sense than people have imagined it? ... No one is in his age alone, he builds on the preceding one, this becomes nothing but the foundation of the future, wants to be nothing but that â this is what we are told by the analogy in nature, Godâs speaking exemplary model in all works! Manifestly so in the human species!"
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"This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity" ["Auch eine Philosophie zur Geschichte der Menscheit"] (1774), as translated by Michael N. Forster, in Johann Gottlieb von Herder: Philosophical Writings (2002), edited by Michael N. Forster, p. 299
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Johann Gottfried Herder
1744 â 1803
deutscher Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Theologe
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