{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-25/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As far as the external aspect of the Earth is concerned, natural science, which only disposes of the combining intellectual power, of apparatuses, etc., can only look back upon a few thousands of years. The descriptions of a clairvoyant looking back upon the past development of our Earth must, however, differ from those of natural science though a kind of harmony ,will one day be established between natural science and spiritual science. Natural science draws attention to a fact which a clairvoyant can ascertain without any doubt namely that the face of our Earth has not only changed in regard to plants, but that continents and oceans once existed in regions of our Earth where they no longer exist. Huxley, for instance, pointed out that a whole part of Great Britain has already been submerged by the ocean four times. Thus the face of our Earth constantly undergoes a transformation. In volume 12 of “Kosmos” you may, for instance, find an article on the so-called old continent of Atlantis, where a scientist who completely adopts the standpoint of natural science proves, through the configuration of the flora and fauna in Europe and in America, that the present Atlantic Ocean must once have been a continent, and that great parts of Africa must in those times have been covered by the ocean. On the other hand, the continent of Atlantis existed, in the West, stretching between the present Europe and America. This scientist only speaks of the fauna and of the flora of Atlantis, which is of course natural. But even if remnants of the ancient human beings, who were our ancestors could be found (they must exist at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean), it is not possible to-day to investigate to such an extent the bottom of the ocean. The clairvoyant, however, can look back as far as the time of Atlantis, and he knows that this ancient Atlantean continent, which Plato describes, really existed. Essentially speaking, the whole surface now covered by the Atlantic Ocean was once Atlantis, and this continent was inhabited by the physical predecessors of the present human race. Of course they had a rather different aspect from the one imagined by modern natural science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Es beruht zwar alles auf Hypothese, aber wir können erfreut sein, daß sich heute schon die Naturwissenschaft mit der Geisteswissenschaft etwas darin begegnet. Die Naturwissenschaft sagt: In den Gegenden, wo wir heute leben, waren riesige Urwälder mit einem Klima, wie es heute am Äquator herrscht; mächtige Tiere waren da anzutreffen. Ganz anders hatte das Antlitz der Erde ausgesehen nach dem, was die Naturwissenschaft heute sagt. Nach dem Tropenklima, das damals herrschte, vor dem heutigen gemäßigten, war die Glazial- oder Eiszeit, und so weiter. Das sind Dinge, die Sie in jedem Geologiebuch bereits finden können. Ich erzähle das, um Sie darauf hinzuweisen, wie wir uns durchaus vergegenwärtigen müssen, daß sich das Antlitz der Erde in gewissen Zeiträumen mächtig ändert und ganz anders aussieht. Die Naturwissenschaft, die nur den kombinierenden Verstand, ihre Apparate und so weiter zur Verfügung hat, kann nur auf eine Reihe von Jahrtausenden auf das äußerliche Aussehen unserer Erde zurückblicken. Wenn aber der Seher zurückschaut, muß er es zwar in einer etwas andern Weise schildern, aber es wird schon jene Harmonie zwischen Naturwissenschaft und Geisteswissenschaft einmal kommen. Die Naturwissenschaft weist uns schon heute auf die Tatsache hin, die der Seher mit Entschiedenheit behaupten muß, daß das Antlitz der Erde sich nicht nur verändert hat in bezug auf Pflanzen und so weiter, sondern daß ganz andere Gebiete unserer Erde von Land oder Meer bedeckt waren, als es heute der Fall ist. So hat Huxley darauf aufmerksam gemacht, daß ein ganzer Teil von Großbritannien bereits viermal unter Wasser gestanden hat. Dementsprechend sieht das Antlitz unserer Erde immer wieder ganz anders aus. — Sie finden zum Beispiel im «Kosmos», Heft 10, eine Abhandlung über die sogenannte alte Atlantis, wo ein Gelehrter, der ganz auf dem Boden der Naturwissenschaft steht, aus der Konfiguration des Pflanzen- und Tierreiches in Europa und Amerika nachweist, daß, was heute Atlantischer Ozean ist, früher Land gewesen sein muß, und daß in jenen Zeiten große Teile von Afrika nicht Land, sondern Meer gewesen sein müssen. Dafür aber bestand im Westen von uns das Land Atlantis, das sich zwischen Europa und Amerika ausbreitete.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-25/p007"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-06-25/p008","GA 100/1907-06-25/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":426,"en_words":454,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3926,"original_word_count":3679,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070625p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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