collides with the necessary course of the world. Hegel could not have said it better half a century later. With this speech, Goethe wanted above all to rouse himself to creativity. It was more difficult for him to pull himself together for the examination for doctor of law that he still had not taken. I lacked real knowledge and no internal direction urged me to that subject matter. If he lacked internal direction, it would have to come from without: his father was pressing him. In the early summer of 1771, Goethe finally wrote his dissertation. As his topic he chose the relationship between
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