Note 40 — Chapter II · ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE (B) THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Goethe, in his little essay “Geistesepochen,” has characterized the four parts of a Culture—its preliminary, early, late, and civilized stages—with such a depth of insight that even to-day there is nothing to add. See the tables at the end of Vol. I, which agree with this exactly.