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Observation of life can lead us to the perception of a law of inter-dependence. Let us take a definite example.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The Nature and Significance of Karma in the Personal and Individual; and in Humanity, the Earth and the Universe","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-16","location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100516p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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Versuchen wir einmal — zunächst rein durch Beobachtung des Lebens - festzustellen, ob es so etwas gibt. Wir wollen uns jetzt also rein auf den Standpunkt der äußeren Beobachtung stellen. Wer solche Beobachtungen nicht anstellt, kann auch nie zum Erkennen eines gesetzmäßigen Zusammenhanges im Leben kommen; er kann es ebensowenig, wie derjenige das Gesetz des elastischen Stoßes an zwei Billardkugeln kennenlernen kann, der diesen Stoß nicht beobachten wird. Beobachtung des Lebens kann uns in der Tat zu der Anschauung eines gesetzmäßigen Zusammenhanges führen. 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