Lecture VI

GA 137/1912-06-08/p029 ·1912-06-08 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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Let us now look at the second man. The fact that the middle man has Twins which show such totally different developments on the two sides, gives it a double relation with the outside world It is connected with the outside world on the one hand through the head,—for it has knowledge in the head; and on the other hand, through the fact that man is a creature that moves about on earth and can direct his motion from within. Finally it is also connected with the outside world by means of the reproductive organs which make possible the physical continuity of man. Were it not for these three members,—the Twins on the two sides, with the reproductive organs—there would be no connection with the outside world. These three members in the middle organism enable man to have connection on the one hand with the earth process and on the other hand with the continued evolution of earth man, with the sequence of the generations and the reciprocity of sex.

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