Question about fascinating insightful adage coined by Ludwig Boerne and originally expressed in German

Mon Feb 11 22:50:24 UTC 2013

 Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> Here is the text of the section, which you can stick into Google Translate
> to get a rough idea::

Dan: Thanks for taking the time to extract the German text and respond
to my question with a valuable suggestion. Before sending this
question to the ADS list I did obtain a response from Google Translate
but the quality seemed insufficient.
Best, Garson

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