Brother Wilhelm

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    Not my brother or my sister, but it’s me, O Lord,
    standin’ in the need of prayer:
    —African-American hymn-writer. “Standing in the Need of Prayer,” l. 3-4.

    In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)