At the time when my book The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity appeared, Eduard von Hartmann was one of the first to receive a copy, and he wrote to me: The book ought not to be called 'The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity' but A Study in Phenomena connected with the Theory of Cognition, and an Ethical Individualism. For a title of course that would have been rather long-winded; but it would not have been bad to have called it Ethical Individualism, for ethical individualism is nothing but the personal realisation of freedom. The best people were totally unable to perceive how the actual impulses of the age were calling for the thing that is discussed in that book.

Lecture: Cosmogeny, Freedom, Altruism also known as Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization. (GA191 Dornach, 10 October 1919) http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/CoFrAl_index.html