Anthroposophy and its Opponents

GA 255b — 5 January 1923, Dornach

Religious Opponents X

after the talk for the workers on the Goetheanum building

I myself am absolutely opposed to any agitation on our part. Of course I cannot prevent everything. But anyone who reads, for example, in the little pamphlet 'Die Hetze gegen das Goetheanum' ('The Agitators Against the Goetheanum') – yes, if it were only my things in it, then of course one would not be able to find what one now finds in it. But of course I cannot do everything all by myself and must be prepared for the fact that many things happen that would not have happened if it had been up to me. But that is not true when I speak to you, for then I simply point out the strict facts. For what I have told you today are strict facts, and I have drawn from them only a general characteristic of scientific life. You yourselves must say: Where such facts are not taken into account, there is no will to do real science, but there is the will to throw dust in people's eyes, even if in a rather unconscious way.