Man regards Nature only as an excitement to his faculties, and only the Spiritual which he has evolved from it can have any influence over him.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Topic excitement influence
Date 1837
Language English
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Note Translated by J. Sibree
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