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Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo in pink blue and orange pictorial wraps; 60p; illustrations; 22cm. "Nature's Law is perceived as compulsion only so long as man looks upon it as an alien power. If he penetrates its true being, it is experienced as a force which he himself uses in his inner being; he feels himself to be an element co-operating productively in the "being and becoming" of things." --Rudolf Steiner in Goethe's Conception of the World. Notes: Translation of extracts from J.W. Goethe's scientific works and of R. Steiner's Unorganische Natur and Organische Natur, pts. 15-16 of his Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung. Contents: Goethe, J.W. From the scientific writings of Goethe: Nature. Explanatory words on the essay "Nature". Happy encounter. Perceptive judgment. Experiment as mediator between object and subject. Steiner, R. From A theory of knowledge implicit in Goethe's world conception: Inorganic nature. Organic nature. Very good (+); some light external wear to wraps; pages are clean and binding solid.