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Certainly such a young man, who supposing nothing else intervenes, experiences boredom in his twenty-fourth year as the result of impressions received in his thirteenth year, would not have been thus bored if, for example, in the meantime he had married. But we are here dealing with something which has no influence on the fundamental truth of the principle. What is important is that we must find the real factors from which we can establish a law. Observation pure and simple is insufficient; only methodical observation will lead us to the recognition of the law; and therefore if we want to study the law of karma, we must make these methodical observations in the right way.","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":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p014","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. 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. 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Aber es wird auch keinem Physiker einfallen, wenn er die Gesetze des fallenden Steines untersuchen will, der mit dieser oder jener Geschwindigkeit fällt, daß er sich sagen müßte, das Gesetz wäre nicht richtig, wenn der Stein etwa durch einen Schlag aus seiner Richtung geschleudert würde. Man muß lernen, in der richtigen Weise zu beobachten, und diejenigen Erscheinungen ausschließen, welche nicht zur Bildung des Gesetzes gehören. Gewiß würde ein solcher Mensch, der, wenn nichts anderes eintreten würde, mit dreiundzwanzig Jahren die Eindrücke seines dreizehnten Jahres in ihrer Wirkung als Überdruß empfindet, zu diesem Überdruß nicht kommen, wenn er zum Beispiel in der Zwischenzeit geheiratet hätte. Aber da hätten wir es mit etwas zu tun, was für die Feststellung des Grundgesetzes ohne Einfluß ist. Darauf aber kommt es an, daß wir die.richtigen Faktoren finden, die uns auf ein Gesetz führen können. Beobachtung an sich ist noch gar nichts; erst geregelte Beobachtung bringt uns zur Erkenntnis des Gesetzes. Nun handelt es sich aber auch darum, solche geregelte Beobachtungen, wenn wir das Gesetz des Karma studieren wollen, in der rechten Weise anzustellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p016"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":275,"en_words":260,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8705,"original_word_count":8647,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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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