The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

In this way, by forming an opposition within oneself against the prevailing opinion, one has the advantage of preserving oneself from the danger of being blindly carried away by the stream of prevailing opinion, the advantage of perhaps saving unrecognized truth and thus preventing injustice (for not recognizing truth as truth is to do it an injustice), and finally the advantage of guarding oneself against mere parroting and superstition, to which we Germans—as is said of us—are supposed to have an excessive inclination anyway.

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