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<div>This is my own translation, inspired by this <span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 0.875rem;">literal translation of Weber's statement from translator, Rodney Livingstone: </span></div><div><br></div>"Our age is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and above all, by the disenchantment of the world. Its resulting fate is that precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have withdrawn from public life. They have retreated either into the abstract realm of mystical life or into the fraternal feelings of personal relations between individuals. It is no accident that our greatest art is intimate rather than monumental."
The Vocation Lectures
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