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Hearing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the most sublime sense, and listens to the first and most ideal breath of the soul.

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Hearing (n.) needs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no dissolution of its object, only a trembling, and leaves the object unimpoverished.

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Hearing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the sense of the pure inwardness of bodies: in sound a body trembles within, and its inside becomes manifest as time.

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Hearing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more ideal than sight: the eye leaves its objects standing in space, while the ear receives only the inner trembling of a body.

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Hearing (n.) receives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a body's trembling, which leaves it unharmed — the soul of the body expressed in its sound, the inner side of things grasped by the inner life.

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Hearing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a theoretical sense even more ideal than sight: the ear catches not a material shape but the first breath of the soul.

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