{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I am quite sure, my dear friends, that some things might have led me even then to what can be achieved in spiritual science, but not to what our eurythmy presents, if I had not been so close to this spiritual life at the time had I not seen for myself that there was an endeavour, in the way it could be at that time, to evoke something that is spiritual and at the same time really comes to life in the outer world, is really there in the outer world. Of course, all of this is part of a great karmic context, it is no coincidence. There is something like an inner eurhythmy in the way Herman Grimm wanted to live: the way he had the wonderful ability to transform himself as a very young man to take Emerson into German culture in a way that no other country has been taken into, the way he drew attention to the fact that that Emerson should be read more widely because he represented the best side of Americanism, how he resurrected Voltaire, how he resurrected Michelangelo, how he resurrected Raphael, and also Goethe, about whom he gave his wonderful lectures at the beginning of the 1870s at the University of Berlin. There were many things about these lectures that were not quite right for scholars. But in every thought, in every word, in every sentence of these lectures, Goethe lives; he is in them again, is in them with his own spirit. And Herman Grimm really wanted to give something to the life around him with his book “Goethe”. It was a unique event that Goethe, who had been physically dead since 1832 and who had almost been forgotten, was revived in the 1870s by Herman Grimm.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"An Age of Expectation","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-10-07","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p028","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/p028"},{"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/p028","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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Es ist etwas wie eine innere Eurythmie in der Art, wie Herman Grimm das Leben hat nehmen wollen: so wie er die wunderbare Verwandlungsfähigkeit hatte, um als ganz junger Mensch Emerson so in die deutsche Kultur hereinzunehmen, wie er in kein anderes Land hereingenommen worden ist, wie er darauf aufmerksam machte, daß Emerson mehr gelesen werden sollte, weil er die beste Seite des Amerikanismus darstellte, wie er Voltaire, wie er Michelangelo, wie er Raffael auferstehen ließ, und auch Goethe, über den er seine wunderbaren Vorlesungen hielt im Beginne der siebziger Jahre an der Berliner Universität. Den Gelehrten war manches nicht recht an diesen Vorlesungen. Aber in jedem Gedanken, in jedem Wort, in jedem Satz dieser Vorlesungen lebt Goethe; da ist er wieder darinnen, ist mit seinem eigenen Geiste darinnen. Und dem Leben rings umher wollte wirklich Herman Grimm mit seinem Buche «Goethe» etwas geben. Es war ein einzigartiges Ereignis, daß Goethe, der physisch seit 1832 tot war, der fast vergessen war, gerade durch Herman Grimm in den siebziger Jahren wieder auflebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p028"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p028"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":297,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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/p028"],"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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