wahlverwandtschaft

Updated: September 24, 2025

Strange that Nordau, in his "Conventional Lies of Civilisation," should echo this aspiration and gush over the Goethean Wahlverwandtschaft the elective affinity of souls almost with the rapture of a Platonist, conceiving love as the soul finding its pre-natal half.

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