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Human, All-Too-Human, Part 2

Part 1 — 86.

Paul V. (Paul Victor) Cohn translation

Wherewith We See the Ideal.—Every efficient man is blocked by his efficiency and cannot look out freely from its prison. Had he not also a goodly share of imperfection, he could, by reason of his virtue, never arrive at an intellectual or moral freedom. Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

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