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G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LO NDON
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CONTENTS
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MEIS TE R ECKHART S2
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FOREWORD
RUDOLF STEINER.
INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCT ION
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CARDINAL NICHOLAS OF CUSA 135
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CAR DINA L NIC HOLAS OF CUSA 143
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Nicholas of Cusa sets out to mount
from the knowledge one acquires in t he
isolated scienc es up to the inner living
experiences. There can be no doubt that
the excellent logical t echnique which the
Schol astics have developed, and for which
Nicholas himself was educated, forms a
most effective means of at t ain ing t o
these inner experiences, even though the
Scholastics themselves were held back
from this road by their positi ve faith .
But one can only understand Nic holas
fully when one reflects that his calling as
a priest, which raised him to the dignity
of Cardinal , prevent ed him from coming
to a complet e breach with the faith of
the Church , which found an expression
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biographers as unobjectionable, if it IS
said that he made money under the pre-
tence of understanding secret arts and
conferring benefits on people thereby,
there stands against this his unmi stakable,
unresting impulse to acquire honestly
the entire knowledge of his age, and to
deepen this knowledge in the direction
of a higher cognition of the world.
vVe may see in him very plainly
the endeavour to attain to a clear and
definite attitude towards natural science
on the one hand, and to the higher know-
ledge on the other. But he only can
attain to such an at t it ude who is pos-
sessed of a clear insight as t o t he respec-
tive roads which lead to one and to the
other kind of knowledge. As t ru e as it
is on the one hand that natural science
must eventually be raised into the region
of the sp irit, if it is t o pass over int o
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