While it is said that “if you were quiet, you would be strong”, the variant is also true that “if you are quiet, you will perceive—that is, understand” ’ (p. 26). ‘And then I enjoy the quietude of soliloquizing and communing with the spirit of history. This spirit is one who did not appear to Faust in his study, or to Master Goethe either. But they would have felt no alarm in making way for him, however grave and compelling such an apparition might be. For he is brotherly, akin to us in another and deeper sense than are the denizens of bush and field. These exertions are like Jacob’s
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