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Excerpt from Goethe's West-Easterly Divan: Translated, With Introduction and Notes
The cause of this apparent indifference to his country's political welfare lay within his temperament and mental structure: it is interesting to observe that it was an organic exigency of his nature, as little to be modified or cancelled as was that devotion to knowledge, art, and culture which ¿ourished by favor of this indifference. The genius instinctively submitted to its own law.
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