{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"My dear friends! Perhaps you have already gathered from much of what has been said here and in other places in the field of spiritual science – including the introductory words about our dear friend Christian Morgenstern – that it is important to me to take all our endeavors, including those that are linked to our endeavors, as a whole, as something unified, and that it is particularly important to me that this whole, which is to be incorporated into the evolution of humanity as an impulse for a new spiritual culture, really does connect with the longings, hopes and expectations of the spiritual culture of the immediate past. I tried to emphasize this in particular here at the celebration commemorating the laying of the foundation stone of our building. Our spiritual science and its aspirations, and also, among other things, what has just been shown before your eyes as pictures of our building, and finally what is to be introduced into our cultural context as eurythmy, should be seen as a unified whole, but also as something that is not just a whole in itself, but connects to something that has been awaited. And when I tried to draw a line from Goethe to Christian Morgenstern to Herman Grimm, this was only intended to give two examples of how, on the one hand, the development of humanity really gives us to believe in a deeper optimism in the progress of human development, but on the other hand also that spiritual factors and impulses continually intervene in human development. I have tried to lead you to your souls, as Goethe, at the end of his “Faust”, had to depict Faust's ascent into the spiritual worlds with old Christian-Catholic forms, and I have pointed out how in the poet Christian Morgenstern someone has found his way to us who has begun to shape the spiritual life, the supersensible worlds, into new forms, as is necessary for the human being of the present. From some of the poems left behind, from some of these words, you will have heard again how poetry can unite, most intimately unite, with what we mean by spiritual life: that a new relationship be found between the life of the human being on the physical plane and his or her connection to the spiritual worlds, and how spiritual factors intervene in the further development of humanity. I tried to make it clear by daring to express what may be expressed among true anthroposophists: that Herman Grimm, who may be called Goethe's accredited governor in the second half of the 19th century, may now find in the sight of what Christian Morgenstern was already able to carry up into the spiritual worlds what he could not find on earth in his physical body. There we see the interaction of the spiritual with the physical progress of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"An Age of Expectation","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-10-07","location":null,"word_count":479,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.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/156/1914-10-07/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p017","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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Vielleicht haben Sie schon aus mancherlei, das hier und auch an anderen Orten auf dem Gebiete der Geisteswissenschaft gesprochen worden ist - auch aus den einleitenden Worten über unseren lieben Freund Christian Morgenstern -, entnommen, daß mir etwas darauf ankommt, alle unsere Bestrebungen, also auch das, was an unsere Bestrebungen sich angliedert, als ein Ganzes, als etwas Einheitliches zu nehmen, und daß es mir namentlich darauf ankommt, daß dieses ganze, das der Menschheitsevolution wie ein Impuls zu einer neuen Geisteskultur einverleibt werden soll, sich wirklich anschließt an die Sehnsuchten, an die Hoffnungen, an die Erwartungen der Geisteskultur der unmittelbar verflossenen Zeit. Ich habe das ja insbesondere hier bei der Feier zum Gedenken der Grundsteinlegung unseres Baues zu betonen versucht. Man sollte also unsere Geisteswissenschaft und ihre Bestrebungen, neben anderem auch das, was als Bilder unseres Baues eben vor Ihren Augen abgerollt ist, und endlich das, was als Eurythmie sich einleben soll in unseren Kulturzusammenhang, betrachten als ein einheitliches Ganzes, aber auch als etwas, was nicht nur für sich ein Ganzes ist, sondern sich anschließt an etwas, das man erwartet hat. Und wenn ich vorhin versuchte, mit ein paar Worten eine Linie zu ziehen von Goethe bis zu Christian Morgenstern über Herman Grimm, so sollte dies nur ein zweifaches Beispiel dafür sein, wie auf der einen Seite in der Menschheitsentwickelung wirklich Veranlassung dazu gegeben ist, daß man in einem tieferen Optimismus an einen Fortgang der Menschheitsentwickelung glauben darf, auf der anderen Seite aber auch dafür, daß geistige Faktoren, geistige Impulse fortwährend in die Menschheitsentwickelung eingreifen. Ich habe versucht, vor ihre Seelen zu führen, wie Goethe am Schlusse seines «Faust» den Aufstieg Fausts in die geistigen Welten darstellen mußte mit alten christlich-katholischen Formen, und ich habe darauf aufmerksam gemacht, wie in dem Dichter Christian Morgenstern jemand zu uns gefunden hat, der den Anfang damit gemacht hat, das geistige Leben, die übersinnlichen Welten, in neue Formen zu prägen, wie es für den Menschen der Gegenwart notwendig ist. Aus manchem der nachgelassenen Gedichte, aus manchen dieser Worte werden Sie wiederum vernommen haben, wie Dichtung sich vereinigen kann, innigst sich vereinigen kann mit dem, was das von uns gemeinte geistige Leben will: daß ein neues Verhältnis gefunden werde zwischen dem Leben des Menschen auf dem physischen Plane und seinem Angeknüpftsein an die geistigen Welten, und wie geistige Faktoren in die Fortentwickelung der Menschheit eingreifen. Ich versuchte es klar zu machen, indem ich auszusprechen wagte, was unter wahren Anthroposophen ausgesprochen werden darf: daß Herman Grimm, der genannt werden darf der akkreditierte Statthalter Goethes in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, gewissermaßen das, was er auf Erden im physischen Leibe nicht finden konnte, nun finden darf im Anblick dessen, was Christian Morgenstern schon jetzt in die geistigen Welten hinaufzutragen in der Lage war. Da sehen wir das Zusammenwirken des Geistigen mit dem physischen Menschheitsfortgang.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":470,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p017"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":470,"en_words":479,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8155,"original_word_count":7855,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":1.02,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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