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If the same degree of selfishness could take over our senses, it would be a great misfortune because our senses now work in our bodies in a truly unselfish manner.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-06-01","location":null,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p006"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p006","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Und es wäre das größte Unglück des Erdenmenschen, wenn er mit Bezug auf gewisse Teile seines Wesens so selbstsüchtig sein müßte, wie er es in vieler Beziehung heute noch sein muß in bezug auf sein moralisches, intellektuelles und gefühlsmäßiges Leben. Wenn die Selbstsucht zum Beispiel in demselben Grad unsere Sinne ergreifen würde oder ergreifen könnte, wie sie unsere Moral ergreift, so wäre dies das größte Unglück für den Erdenmenschen. Denn unsere Sinne wirken an unserem Leibe so, daß in dieser Sinneswirkung sich Selbstlosigkeit ausspricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p006"}],"english":["GA 152/1914-06-01/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":174,"en_words":145,"ratio":0.83,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4842,"original_word_count":5593,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 152/1914-06-01/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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