Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits / quote 41 of 58

Science can show us how opinions come to existence

From this world of conception it is in the power of science to release us only to a slight extent—and this is all that could be wished—inasmuch as it cannot eradicate the influence of hereditary habits of feeling, but it can light up by degrees the stages of the development of that world of conception, and lift us, at least for a time, above the whole spectacle.

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