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Before that point of time a child is highly impressionable. Just think how much is taken in during the first, second and third years of life; yet modern man has no remembrance at all of *how* the impressions were made.—Then follows the period through which the thread of memory runs continuously.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-01-16","location":null,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/124/1911-01-16/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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Man unterscheidet sie nur gewöhnlich nicht, aber sie sind sehr, sehr voneinander zu unterscheiden. Ich habe - weil tatsächlich mehr, als man gewöhnlich denkt, unser ganzes geisteswissenschaftliches Streben systematisch aufgebaut ist — bereits verschiedentlich auf diese zwei voneinander grundverschiedenen Glieder des Menschen aufmerksam gemacht. Das eine kann man sehen in der Zeit der menschlichen Entwickelung, die zwischen der Geburt und dem Zeitpunkte liegt, bis zu dem sich der heutige moderne Mensch zurückerinnert in dem einzelnen individuellen Leben. Wenn Sie Ihre Erinnerungen zurückverfolgen, kommen Sie bis zu einem gewissen Punkt; weiter erinnern Sie sich nicht. Obwohl Sie auch vorher da waren und sich vielleicht von Ihren Eltern oder Geschwistern haben erzählen lassen, was Sie vorher getrieben haben, und daher auch manches davon wissen, so erinnern Sie sich doch nicht über einen gewissen Punkt zurück. Es reißt die normale Erinnerung mit einem gewissen Zeitpunkt ab. Der liegt im günstigsten Falle so um das dritte Lebensjahr herum. Vorher ist nun der Mensch ungemein regsam und eindrucksfähig. Was lernt man nicht alles in dieser Zeit, im ersten, zweiten, dritten Lebensjahr! Aber wie die Dinge Eindruck gemacht haben, dessen erinnert sich der heutige moderne Mensch ganz und gar nicht. — Dann beginnt die Zeit, durch welche sich der Faden der Ich-Erinnerung einfach glatt hindurchzieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/124/1911-01-16/p023"}],"english":["GA 124/1911-01-16/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":236,"en_words":188,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6274,"original_word_count":6604,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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