The necessities of the time have accorded to the petty interests of every day life such overwhelming attention : the deep interests of actuality and the strife respecting these have engrossed all the powers and the forces of the mind — as also the necessary means — to so great an extent, that no place has been left to the higher inward life, the intellectual operations of a purer sort; and the better natures have thus been stunted in their growth, and in great measure sacrificed. p. x

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The necessities of the time have accorded to the petty interests of every day life such overwhelming attention : the deep interests of actuality and the strife respecting these have engrossed all the powers and the forces of the mind — as also the necessary means — to so great an extent, that no place has been left to the higher inward life, the intellectual operations of a purer sort; and the better natures have thus been stunted in their growth, and in great measure sacrificed. p. x" in the context of "Inaugural Address, delivered at Heidelberg on the 28th October(1816),
• Lectures on the history of philosophy, translated from German by E. S. Haldane in Three Volumes (1892-96) full text." to mean that wisdom is timeless.