Sauerteig

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Sauerteig (i. e. leaven), an imaginary authority alive to the "celestial infernal" fermentation that goes on in the world, who has an eye specially to the evil elements at work, and to whose opinion Thomas Carlyle frequently appeals in his condemnatory verdict on sublunary things.