{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-20/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But there is today a conception of history which is just what we would expect from somebody who came along with ideas such as those I have described, and it is by no means rare. Indeed in the nineteenth century it was looked upon as immensely clever. But what should we be able to say about it from the standpoint we have gained? If anyone were to explain the mountain stream in this “pragmatic” way, he would be talking utter nonsense. How is it then that he upholds the same nonsense with regard to history? The reason is simply that he does not notice it! And history is so complicated that it is almost everywhere expounded as “pragmatic history”, and nobody notices it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought as Gateway to Cosmic Understanding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Sie wurde sogar im 19. Jahrhundert als ungeheuer geistreich aufgefaßt. Was würden wir aber dazu sagen können von dem eben gewonnenen Gesichtspunkte aus? Wenn jemand von dem Bergstrome dasselbe behauptete wie von der Geschichte, so würde er einen absoluten Unsinn behaupten. Was liegt denn aber da vor, daß er denselben Unsinn behauptet in bezug auf die Geschichte? - Die Geschichte ist so kompliziert, daß man nicht merkt, daß sie als pragmatische Geschichte fast überall so vorgetragen wird; man merkt es nur nicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/151/1914-01-20/p040"}],"english":["GA 151/1914-01-20/p043"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":108,"en_words":123,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5201,"original_word_count":5374,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1961","book_title":"Human and Cosmic Thought (1961)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/19140120p01.html","evidence":"edition_cover_credit","note":"The lecture's own page names no translator; the cover of the book it was taken from (https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/HuCoTh_index.html) lists it and names the translator. 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