"Eben die Bahn, aus welcher das Geschlecht zu seiner Vollkommenheit gelangt, muß jeder einzelne Mensch (der früher, der später) erst durchlaufen haben."
— Perfection

January 1, 1970

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Precisely the way on which the species reaches its perfection, every individual human being (one earlier, one later) must have traversed, too. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of Mankind, § 93.