“A parallel comparison of the real data concerning the events which took place on the same Egypt and those data about them which became fixed in the BEING-REPRESENTATION and understanding of almost every responsible being of famous contemporary ‘culture’, and which are known to them, as it were, thanks to their already ‘perfected reason’ might serve as an obvious illustrative example of from what general data their ‘logical mentation’ at the period of their responsible existence is built up and consists, and likewise gives me the possibility yet once again to notice and emphasize to you all the maleficence in an objective sense of their usage, which was finally fixed in the process of their ordinary existence, and which they themselves call by the high-sounding words, ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ of the growing generation. BTG XXXIV

“Yet how, thanks to the said means of perception of informations which they themselves call ‘learning-parrotlike’, he knows this, and what totality of the BEING-REPRESENTATION about this ‘results’ from all three of his spiritualized being-parts, you may picture to yourself with your own eyes, and clearly understand from the following illustration of mine. BTG XXXIV

‘A good example, and even, so to say, an ‘illuminatingly enlightening picture for your BEING-REPRESENTATION’ of what extraordinary perspectives are opened for the future by just this invention of theirs, is the fact that already certain of these contemporary American beings who have acquired, of course also by a variety of accidents, a quantity of their famous dollars, now arrange in their ‘water closets with comfortable seats’ such accessories as a small table, a telephone and what is called a ‘radio apparatus’, so that when so sitting, they may continue their ‘correspondence’, discuss over the telephone with their acquaintances all their dollar businesses, quietly read the newspapers which have become indispensable to them, or finally, listen to those musical compositions, the work of various Hasnamusses there which, because they are, as is said, ‘fashionable’, every contemporary American businessman is also obliged to know. BTG XLII