“If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new condition to enter into the highest combinations that are possible in this universe.
1813, J. D. Falk, quoting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by David Luke and Robert Pick, Goethe: Conversations and Encounters, London: O. Wolff, published 1966, page 88