From Adele and Felix Schafer (15 February 1959)

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Adele

[37] Dear Ilona and Karl, Felix has told you already all the best …

For instance the word for a nobleman in Maori "Ariki" is undoubtedly identical with "Airech", the … […]

The Maori "TOHUNGA (priest, adept) becomes "KAHUNA" in Hawaian, and can be traced in "KAHANE" or "KOHEN" (Hebrew).

Thus life is very exiting for me and we have no time to be sorry for grounding older.

Felix

[38] Dear Ilona and Karl,

Your … […]

They do not live with [39] us, but have bought an old house … […] … Maori studies and has begun … […] maximum [40] satisfaction they have to introduce so many assumptions … […] regarding universalism [41] Spann - he rest in peace - has, as far as I can remember, referred only to Platonician concepts such as "the good", "my beautiful" etc. would be central thesis of "universalism" that the "whole" is prior to the "part". Not only that he did not tell us that all this could be found at Plato, he never touched authors like Marshall, {Goodrich}, Bentham, ____ (…) […] And also _____ the Austrian school here was _____ of such questions. But he never mentioned them. Nor was such a thing ___ bought up in discussions, because is I suppose, some of the students …

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KPA: 58/10, 37+38-41