Thursday, November 06, 2025
Nature Is Unfeeling
Goethe, "Das Göttliche," lines 13-19 (tr. David Luke):
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For Nature is unfeeling: the sun shines on the evil and on the good, and the criminal as well as the best of men sees the brightness of the moon and the stars.Cf. Matthew 5.45:
Denn unfühlend
Ist die Natur:
Es leuchtet die Sonne
Über Bös' und Gute,
Und dem Verbrecher
Glänzen, wie dem Besten
Der Mond und die Sterne.
For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
