…and in modern science, we see it in taxonomy, in comparative anatomy, in morphology, and incidentally, the word morphology was invented by Goethe, so you see it has a profoundly artistic and and poetic overtone to it. And in modern psychology, we see it…

…had come to me. Now against this, let us set a number of other quotations. Let me set first of all some quotations from Goethe. Goethe, after all, was one of the supreme masters of the word, and it is very interesting to find this great manipulator of…

…to me. Now against this, let us set a number of other quotations. Let me set first of all some quotations from Goethe. Goethe, after all, was one of the supreme masters of the word, and it is very interesting to find this great manipulator of words…

…many great poets in modern times have felt exactly the same as Homer did, or as even much more primitive people than Homer did. Goethe, for example, says, the songs made me, not I the songs. And the French poet Lamartine says, it is not I who think,…