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The farther humanity progresses, the greater will be the understanding of these records. The human being can feel spiritual guidance within himself; and collective humanity can feel it in those of its members who work as did the writers of the Gospels.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p036?edition=ASGB1921","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1992","ASGB1921"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p036","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p036?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p030"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":180,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Eine Menschheit muß wahrhaftig geführt werden, wenn innerhalb ihrer Personen wirken, welche Urkunden aus denselben Kräften heraus schreiben, aus welchen der Mensch selbst weisheitsvoll gestaltet wird. - Und wie der einzelne Mensch Dinge sagt oder tut, die er erst in einem späteren Lebensalter versteht, so hat die Gesamtmenschheit in den Evangelienschreibern sich die Mittler hervorgebracht, die in ihren Schriften Offenbarungen lieferten, die erst nach und nach begriffen werden können. Es wird, je weiter die Menschheit vorrückt, immer mehr und mehr das Verständnis dieser Urkunden gefunden werden. Der Mensch kann in sich die geistige Führung fühlen; die Gesamtmenschheit kann sie in denjenigen Personen fühlen, welche in der Art der Evangelienschreiber wirken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p030"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p036"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":180,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6442,"original_word_count":6235,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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