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Der Geist

In Fragment 80, Novalis uses the masculine pronoun "der Geist" throughout the section. The only masculine noun is Geist. But the English "it" is too ambiguous to identify the referent, so the noun mind was used for the pronoun "Geist"

Gemeingeist

Literally common spirit is translated in its semantic sense of sense of the common good.

Inzitation

Being consistent with "Inzitamenten" in Fragment 8 on page 112, "Inzitation" was also translated as incitation, as it is a synonym of Anregungen, thought this too seems related to the jargon of the Brunonian system of medicine