Until this shall have been attained,
until the existing culture of every age shall have been dif-
fused over the whole inhabited globe, and our race become
capable of the most unlimited inter-communication with it-
self, one nation or one continent must pause on the great
common path of progress, and wait for the advance of the
others; and each must bring as an offering to the universal
commonwealth, for the sake of which alone it exists, its ages
of apparent or retrogression.
until the existing culture of every age shall have been dif-
fused over the whole inhabited globe, and our race become
capable of the most unlimited inter-communication with it-
self, one nation or one continent must pause on the great
common path of progress, and wait for the advance of the
others; and each must bring as an offering to the universal
commonwealth, for the sake of which alone it exists, its ages
of apparent or retrogression.
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar
