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People only grope today, and the solid basis of pathology and of therapy goes back to ancient times. It was a torture for my intellect and my feelings when phenacetin was tested. This kind of testing, without any kind of guide, shows that at the same time as it lost the spirit science also lost its depth. Through spiritual knowledge this depth will be acquired again. It is absolutely necessary to distinguish between caricatures of science and real knowledge based on the spirit. If you take this to heart you will see how necessary it is to have spiritual scientific knowledge, and that it has to find its way into every realm of knowledge and life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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Wir werden noch zeigen können, daß es gar nicht so lange her ist, daß man wenigstens ein dunkles Bewußtsein von diesen Rhythmen hatte. Wer mit einem entsprechenden Bewußtsein durch die Welt geht, kann finden, daß in manchen Kalendern, die auf dem Lande gebraucht werden, in bezug auf bestimmte Verhältnisse zwischen Tier und Land gewisse Regeln angegeben werden. Durch die Beobachtung dieser Regeln in solchen Bauernkalendern ordnete früher der Landmann seine ganze Landwirtschaft. In das bäuerliche Wissen war das Bewußtsein solcher Rhythmen hineingeheimnißt. Das sind Dinge, die uns zeigen können, daß seit dem 15., 16. Jahrhundert ein Zeitalter der Abstraktion, der äußeren Wissenschaft eingetreten ist, einer Wissenschaft, die gar nicht mehr imstande ist, auf die Gründe einzugehen. Das ist besonders in der Medizin der Fall. Hier haben wir heute nur noch ein Tasten, und der solide Grundstock der Pathologie und Therapie geht auf uralte Zeiten zurück. Ich habe das Martyrium des Intellektes und der Empfindungen durchgemacht, als das Phenazetin ausprobiert wurde. Diese Art des Ausprobierens, ohne auch nur einen Leitfaden zu haben, zeigt, daß der Wissenschaft mit dem Geist auch der Ernst verlorengegangen ist. Dieser Ernst wird wieder erworben werden durch geistige Erkenntnis. Man muß durchaus unterscheiden, wo die Zerrbilder einer Wissenschaft liegen und wo wirklich auf den Geist gegründete Erkenntnis ist. Wenn man sich das in die Seele schreibt, wird man sehen, wie notwendig geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnis ist, wie sie eindringen muß in alle Gebiete des Wissens und des Lebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1908-12-21/p019"}],"english":["GA 107/1908-12-21/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":250,"en_words":253,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4295,"original_word_count":4111,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"RSP1981","book_title":"The Being of Man and His Future Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/RSP1981/19081221p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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