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Seances des ecoles normales
attr. Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The 'Séances des Écoles normales' is a multi-volume stenographic record of lectures and debates from the École Normale in Paris (1795), published in 1801. Extensive searches in scholarly catalogs, Open Library, and Google Books found no evidence of a complete English translation of this collection or of Saint-Martin's specific contributions ('Sessions') within it. While scholarly works by authors like Arthur Edward Waite and Edward Burton Penny contain excerpts and discussions of Saint-Martin's participation, no standalone or complete English edition of this text exists.
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Is human language a mere invention of convenience, or an innate spark of the divine? Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, the 'Unknown Philosopher,' steps into the lecture halls of post-Revolutionary France to dismantle the cold materialism of the Enlightenment. Discover a profound defense of the 'moral sense'—the radical faculty that allows the human soul to recognize truth and admire the infinite.
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