"It is the destiny of our race to become united into one great body, thoroughly connected in all its parts, and possessed of similar culture. Nature, and even the passions and vices of Man, have from the beginning tended towards this end. A great part of the way towards it is already passed, and we may surely calculate that it will in time be reached."
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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 88
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762 – 1814
deutscher Philosoph
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