GA 197 · Lectures

Gegensätze in der Menschheitsentwickelung

Contrasts in Human Development

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-1970-6 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1996	232	the publisher's online catalog
	1989		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

13 units in the printed table of contents, about 71,081 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1986.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 5.März 1920	1920-03-05	Stuttgart	lecture	5616
ZWEITER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 7. März 1920	1920-03-07	Stuttgart	lecture	4455
DRITTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 9. März 1920	1920-03-09	Stuttgart	lecture	5798
VIERTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 13. Juni 1920	1920-06-13	Stuttgart	lecture	5637
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 24. Juni 1920	1920-06-24	Stuttgart	lecture	7198
SECHSTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 25.Juli 1920	1920-07-25	Stuttgart	lecture	6056
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 30. Juli 1920	1920-07-30	Stuttgart	lecture	6007
ACHTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 21. September 1920	1920-09-21	Stuttgart	lecture	5813
NEUNTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 8. November 1920	1920-11-08	Stuttgart	lecture	6826
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 14. November 1920	1920-11-14	Stuttgart	lecture	7243
ELFTER VORTRAG Stuttgart, 22. November 1920	1920-11-22	Stuttgart	lecture	7498
HINWEISE			apparatus	2533
PERSONENREGISTER			apparatus	401

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	11 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	11 the site's completeness audit
Words served	68148 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA197/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1986 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSP1987

Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1987
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Polarities in the Evolution of Humanity the SteinerBooks catalog CW 197 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Matthew Barton	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2022	9781855846012	in copyright
Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: West and East, Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge and Belief AnthroWiki (English)		Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English)	1987	978-0880105569

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	11	8, 3, 0	367	3, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	1 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	2 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Gegensätze in der Menschheitsentwickelung (GA 197), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/197/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/197/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSP1987.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_197
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_197 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 499ef6344df66203
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA197/English/RSP1987/PolEvo_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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