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Consider what people have been learning for quite a long time now and what they think it right to instill into children; consider what is accepted as the basis of modern education—all this should not be judged in accordance with the views of someone who, believing he is very clever, says he understands these things and knows they are entirely correct. No, all this should be judged in accordance with how it influences and fructifies the soul, and in terms of the impressions it produces on the soul. And when a person becomes cleverer and cleverer, in the sense in which it is fashionable to call people clever today, he develops in his soul certain forces which in this incarnation may make him very well able to dominate the conversation in circles wedded to materialistic or monistic ideas; but then certain vital forces necessary for the human organism are worn away. And when such a person has taken into himself only these typical dregs of modern education, in his next incarnation he will lack the forces that are required for properly building up the human organism. The “cleverer” a person is by the standards of the time we are now facing and the closer his intellectual attunement to it, the more of an imbecile will he be in a later incarnation. For those categories and, concepts which relate only to the sense-perceptible outer world and to the ideas which hold it together—these concepts set up in the soul a configuration which may be ever so fine intellectually but lacks the force to work intensively on the brain and to make use of it, And to be unable while in the physical body to make use of the brain is to be an imbecile.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/144/1913-02-07/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA144/English/RSP1972/19130207p01.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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Insbesondere stehen wir gegenwärtig vor einer Zeitepoche, in der diese Wirkungen, diese Attacken, die von Klinschor und der Iblis ausgehen und die Menschen nach und nach ergreifen, sich auch hineinschleichen in das intellektuelle Leben, in dasjenige intellektuelle Leben, das zusammenhängt mit der modernen Bildung, mit der Popularisierung der modernen Wissenschaft. Was schon seit langem der Mensch lernt, was man betrachtet als das, was richtig ist, dem Kinde beizubringen und es im Kinde heranzuzüchten, und das, was zum Bodensatze der neueren Bildung genommen wird, das ist ja nicht bloß danach zu beurteilen, ob jemand, der glaubt, ganz gescheit zu sein, sagt, er sehe die Dinge ein, und sie seien absolut wahr, sondern alles ist danach zu beurteilen, wie es auf die Seelen wirkt, wie es die Seelen befruchtet, was es für Eindrücke auf die Seelen macht. Und wenn man in dem Sinne eben gescheiter und gescheiter wird, wie es heute Mode ist, den Menschen «gescheit» zu nennen, so entwickelt man in seiner Seele solche Kräfte, die in dieser Inkarnation vielleicht sich sehr fähig erweisen, das große Wort zu führen da, wo man materialistisch oder monistisch leben will; aber dann veröden gewisse lebendige Kräfte, die im Organismus des Menschen sein sollen. Und wenn eine solche Seele, die nur diesen eigentümlichen Bodensatz moderner Bildung in sich aufgenommen hat, dann in die nächste Inkarnation hineinkommt, so fehlen ihr die Kräfte, um den Organismus ordentlich aufzubauen. Je verstandesmäßiger, «gescheiter» man in einer früheren Inkarnation ist in bezug auf die Zeit, der wir entgegengehen, desto «blödsinniger» ist man in einer späteren Inkarnation. Denn jene Kategorien und Begriffe, die sich nur auf das äußere sinnliche Dasein und auf solche Ideen beziehen, die das äußere sinnliche Dasein zusammenhalten, stellen eine solche Konfiguration in der Seele her, die noch so fein sein mag in intellektueller Beziehung, die aber die intensive Kraft verliert, um auf das Gehirn zu wirken und sich des Gehirns zu bedienen. Und sich des Gehirns nicht bedienen können im physischen Leben, heißt eben blöde sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":349,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/144/1913-02-07/p028"},{"locus":"GA 144/1913-02-07/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wenn das, was die Materialisten behaupten, Wahrheit wäre: daß das Gehirn es ist, welches denkt, so könnte man ihnen ja allerdings einigen Trost geben. Aber diese Behauptung ist eben nicht wahr, ebenso wie die andere Behauptung nicht wahr ist, daß das «Sprachzentrum» sich selbst gebildet hätte. Es hat sich dadurch gebildet, daß die Menschen sprechen lernten, und daher ist das Sprachzentrum ein Ergebnis der Sprache. Und so ist alle Gehirntätigkeit ein Ergebnis des Denkens, nicht umgekehrt, auch in der Geschichte. Das Gehirn ist plastisch ausgestaltet durch das Denken. Wenn nur solche Gedanken ausgebildet werden, wie sie heute gang und gäbe sind, wenn die Gedanken nicht durchdrungen werden von der Weisheit des Spirituellen, dann können sich die Seelen, die sich heute nur in dem Materiellen denkend beschäftigen, in den späteren Inkarnationen ihres Gehirns nicht mehr ordentlich bedienen, weil die Kräfte das Gehirn nicht mehr angreifen können, weil sie zu schwach werden. Das ist so, daß eine Seele, die heute bloß, sagen wir, Soll und Haben zusammenaddiert oder sich mit den Usancen des kommerziellen oder industriellen Lebens beschäftigt oder nur materialistische Wissenschaftsbegriffe aufnimmt, sich anfüllt mit Denkgebilden, die nach und nach in späteren Inkarnationen das Bewußtsein verdunkeln, weil das Gehirn wie eine unplastische Masse - gerade wie heute bei der Gehirnerweichung — nicht mehr von den Denkkräften angegriffen werden könnte. Daher muß für den, der in diese tieferen Kräfte der menschheitlichen Entwickelung hineinschaut, alles, was in der Seele leben kann, durchsetzt werden von der spirituellen Erfassung der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/144/1913-02-07/p029"}],"beads":[{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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