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Friedrich Schleiermacher - Pitiful, to be sure, is...
Pitiful, to be sure, is what the pragmatic philosophy of the French and English is. ... They are considered to be so well versed in the knowledge of what man is, despite their failure to speculate on what he should be. (Friedrich Schleiermacher)

Pitiful, to be sure, is what the pragmatic philosophy of the French and English is. ... They are considered to be so well versed in the knowledge of what man is, despite their failure to speculate on what he should be.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

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