Precisely the way on which the species reaches its perfection, every individual human being (one earlier, one later) must have traversed, too. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)

Precisely the way on which the species reaches its perfection, every individual human being (one earlier, one later) must have traversed, too.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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