{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And are we not, my dear friends, seeking a new form for the old beauty with all that is expressed in our structure? Because beauty means much more than what is usually associated with this idea, with this concept. One has only to realize how diverse human progress is in order to understand what it means that in any age like ours, new forms of beauty, new forms of the whole human soul-attitude, should emerge. It must come about that out of the impulses of spiritual science, as we understand it, something develops that signifies progress compared to what came before, that goes even further than what Goethe himself could want in Faust. We must hope for something like that. When Goethe felt the longing to immerse himself in beauty, he could do nothing but go to Rome to relive Greek beauty in his soul. Basically, the whole of the 19th century could do nothing but go to Rome to relive Greek beauty. But the age has come when one must not only go to Rome, not only immerse oneself in classical Greek forms of beauty, but one must enter into spiritual worlds in order to find new forms of beauty from the spiritual worlds. And it must be emphasized that the past age, so to speak, thirsted for such an approach to an epoch of spiritual experience. More than the present time suspects, it expresses itself in just such a spirit as that of Herman Grimm, this representative of Goetheanism in the second half of the 19th century. Not to say something about Herman Grimm, but to show by his example what is expected of the spiritual life of our present time, I would like to insert this link, Herman Grimm, into the development of humanity as it has taken place from Goethe to us, who may consider ourselves as really living and striving in what, at bottom, was also the will of Goethe in the inmost part of his heart, in the inmost part of his soul. The way in which spiritual life progresses in the evolution of humanity is manifold and accessible only to deeper contemplation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"An Age of Expectation","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-10-07","location":null,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p018","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/p018"},{"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/p018","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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Denn Schönheit bedeutet noch viel mehr, als was man gewöhnlich mit dieser Idee, mit diesem Begriff verbindet. Man muß nur sich klarmachen, wie mannigfaltig geartet der Menschheitsfortschritt ist, wenn man gewahr werden will, was es zu bedeuten hat, daß in irgendeinem Zeitalter, wie das unsrige eines ist, neue Formen. der Schönheit, neue Formen der ganzen menschlichen Seelenstimmung hervortreten sollen. Es muß dazu kommen, daß aus den Impulsen der Geisteswissenschaft, wie wir sie meinen, etwas sich heraus entwickelt, was einen Fortschritt gegenüber dem Früheren bedeutet, was noch hinausgeht über das, was selbst Goethe im «Faust» wollen konnte. Wir müssen so etwas erhoffen. Konnte doch Goethe, als er die Sehnsucht empfand, sich in Schönheit zu vertiefen, nichts anderes machen, als nach Rom zu gehen, um die griechische Schönheit in der Seele nachzuerleben. Konnte doch im Grunde genommen das ganze 19. Jahrhundert nichts anderes tun, als nach Rom zu gehen, um die griechische Schönheit nachzuerleben. Aber das Zeitalter ist gekommen, wo man nicht bloß nach Rom gehen, nicht bloß in klassische griechische Schönheitsformen sich vertiefen, sondern wo man in geistige Welten hineingehen muß, um aus den geistigen Welten heraus neue Schönheitsformen zu finden. Und Wert muß darauf gelegt werden, daß das verflossene Zeitalter gewissermaßen dürstete nach solchem Herannahen einer Epoche geistigen Erlebens. Mehr als die Gegenwart es ahnt, drückt sich das gerade in einem solchen Geiste aus, wie es Herman Grimm war, dieser Statthalter des Goetheanismus in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Nicht um über Herman Grimm etwas zu sagen, sondern um an seinem Beispiel zu zeigen, was von dem Geistesleben unserer Gegenwart erwartet wird, möchte ich dieses Glied, Herman Grimm, einfügen in die Entwickelung der Menschheit, wie sie sich vollzogen hat von Goethe bis zu uns herüber, die wir uns betrachten dürfen als wirklich in dem drinnen lebend und strebend, was im Grunde genommen auch Goethe im Innersten seines Herzens, im Innersten seiner Seele wollte. Mannigfaltig und nur tieferer Betrachtung zugänglich ist die Art, wie das Geistesleben in der Evolution der Menschheit fortschreitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":356,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p018"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p018"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":356,"en_words":359,"ratio":1.01,"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":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p018"],"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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