{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The experimenter shows us today in a beautiful way how this Kant-Laplace theory can proceed. One need only take a fairly small ball of oil that swims in water. Then one can very easily put a little cardboard disk in the plane of the equator through this ball and put a needle through the centre. Now one rotates the needle very rapidly, little oil-balls split off, and it is easy to picture a cosmic system in miniature and to show how a cosmic system has separated itself off into globes in space. The experimenter has only forgotten one thing. He forgets that he himself was there, that he made the necessary preparation, that he then rotated the needle and that what cannot go of itself on a miniature scale cannot go of itself in the universe. Out there it is supposed to go of itself. Things are not in the least so very difficult to comprehend, but the right physical principles are so worn out that those who do not want to see them really need not see them. So, spiritual forces and spiritual beings were active in this whole process of planet formation and we will now learn something about it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Nur vergißt der Experimentator dabei eines, nämlich, daß er selbst dabei war und die nötigen Vorbereitungen gemacht hat, daß er dann die Nadel herumgedreht hat, und daß im großen Kosmos nicht von selber gehen kann, was im kleinen auch nicht von selber geht. Da draußen soll es sich von selber machen! Die Dinge sind gar nicht so schwer einzusehen; aber so sehr sind die richtigen physischen Grundsätze abgebraucht, daß diejenigen, die sie nicht sehen wollen, sie auch wirklich nicht zu sehen brauchen. Also bei dieser ganzen Planetenbildung waren geistige Kräfte und geistige Wesenheiten tätig, und wir wollen jetzt einiges davon kennenlernen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-02-15/p007"}],"english":["GA 102/1908-02-15/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":202,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5879,"original_word_count":6223,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1961","book_title":"The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA102/English/AP1961/19080215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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