{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is hot an adverse criticism, for this had to come. Man had to submerge himself in the physical world. The Hindoo still looked, upon it as an illusion, but modern man considers the physical world as the only reality. We have reached the deepest point in our descent and this rendered possible the greatest progress upon the physical plane: This descent, however, must not be in vain, even from a spiritual aspect!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Progressive Development Through The Different Cycles Of Culture","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-26","location":null,"word_count":73,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p044","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"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/ANS1942/19070626p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p044","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-06-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-26/p025"},{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-26/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":373,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Der fünfte Kulturkreis sind wir selbst mit unserer materialistischen Zivilisation. Es ist die Zeit, in welcher der Mensch am tiefsten heruntergestiegen ist in die äußere Welt. Vergleichen Sie unsere Zeit mit den früheren: Wohl wissen wir die Kräfte der geistigen Welt anzuwenden auf unsere äußere Umgebung; überall tragen wir die geistige Welt hinein. Aber vom Standpunkt der Geisteswissenschaft aus hat das eine eigentümliche Perspektive. Erinnern Sie sich an die Zeit, in der der Mensch sich noch zwischen zwei Steinen das Mehl gemahlen hat. Er verwendet wenig Geisteskräfte darauf. Aber im alten Ägypten und Chaldäa vertiefte er sich in die Himmelsweisheit; viel ist ihm da noch gesagt worden über den geistigen Sinn des Sternenhimmels und der Erde selber. Der Grieche schuf noch hinein in diese Welt der Wirklichkeit die idealisierte Menschengestalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-26/p025"},{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Und wie ist das Bild unserer Zeit? Viel geistige Kraft wird da angewendet, um unsere Naturwissenschaft mit ihren technischen Anwendungen hervorzubringen. Aber wie groß ist denn der Unterschied, ob Sie sich mit primitiven Mitteln, oder unter Zuhilfenahme von Telephon, Maschinen und so weiter die Nahrungsmittel von Amerika herüberschaffen, die doch nur dazu dienen, um dasselbe Bedürfnis zu befriedigen, welches auch das Tier hier befriedigt? Versuchen Sie einmal zu prüfen, wieviel von dem Geschaffenen dem Geistesleben dient, und wieviel Geisteskraft gebraucht wird für das materielle Leben. Welch ungeheure Geisteskraft muß die Menschheit heute entwickeln, um materielle Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen! Es ist kein großer Unterschied, wenn das Tier hingeht und Graß frißt, oder wenn man sich durch allerlei Mittel die Nahrungsmittel von Amerika und Australien herübeschafft. Aber das ist keine abfällige Kritik, das muß so sein. So untertauchen mußte der Mensch in diese Welt. Der Inder sah die Welt noch als Illusion an; der heutige Mensch sieht diese Welt als die einzige Wirklichkeit an. Wir sind am tiefsten heruntergestiegen und haben dadurch die größten Fortschritte gemacht auf dem physischen Plan. Aber dieser Herunterstieg darf auch im geistigen Sinne kein vergeblicher sein!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-26/p026"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-06-26/p043","GA 100/1907-06-26/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":319,"en_words":373,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5938,"original_word_count":5438,"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/ANS1942/19070626p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing.","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 100/1907-06-26/p025","GA 100/1907-06-26/p026"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}