How different to live in our time rather than one like Goethe's.
As I look at these thoughts, two possible directions for discussion occur to me, in addition of course to the usual invitation to readers to post whatever thoughts the foregoing ideas, from Goethe and from me, inspire in them to share:
** First: Will we live long enough to be in a world, like Goethe's then, where there's a sense that things are moving toward the good?** Second: What are the "maxims" of our time? By "maxims" I mean those "opinions and views" (or perhaps basic patterns of thought and value) that run through our society moving its various pieces in the same direction, the way Goethe describes a different set of maxims as shaping the Germany of that time of his youthful idealism?
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