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“Believe me, our moral and political world, as a great metropolis used to be, is undermined by subterranean corridors, cellars and cloacae, the relationships and conditions of which are quite unknown to the inhabitants above—indeed, mean nothing to them; now, anyone who knows a little about these matters becomes far more knowledgeable when an earthquake destroys the surface, thus allowing vapors to escape from this pipe, and mysterious voices from that unsuspected conduit.”

Goethe to Lavater, 22 June, 1781.