Finally, in the area of intellectuality, the interrelationships of our theoretical ideas often develop in the exact same form-type that we have
here in the interrelationships of individuals with each other and thereby, perhaps more than individual social examples could, confirm this deeper sense stretching out over all details; one would call it its objective meaning which is only realized historically in all empiri- cal cases and only with an approximate purity.
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