{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-03-07/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Imagine the following case: Ernst Haeckel has taken care basically through his whole life to direct the German world view to the British thinking. The British thinking, the British empiricism flows into Ernst Haeckel's writings completely. He now rails against England the most. These are processes which take place in the subconscious of the soul of the Central European; these are also matters which are tightly connected in such a soul with karma. Consider please what it means that Haeckel places himself before the world and says, he himself has accomplished the first great action of the great researcher Huxley, while he stamped the sentence of the similarity of the human bone and the animal bone; that he, Haeckel, then has pointed to the big change in the view of the origin of the human being, and that he accepted nothing in the evolution theory but what came from the West.—Then one sees that he is urged now to rail against that what has constituted his whole intellectual life. It is the most tragic event of the present for such a soul which can be only thought. It is spiritual dynamite, because it bursts, actually, all supporting pillars on which such a soul stands.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-03-07","location":null,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-03-07/p032","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK2013","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150307p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Denken Sie einmal, was es heißt, wenn Haeckel sich hinstellt vor die Welt und sagt, er selbst habe die erste große Tat des großen Forschers Huxley vollbracht, indem er den Satz von der Ähnlichkeit des Menschenknochen mit dem Tierknochen prägte; wie er, Haeckel, dann hingewiesen hat auf den großen Umschwung in der Auffassung von der Abstammung des Menschen, und wie er in die Evolutionslehre nichts hereinnahm als das, was aus dem Westen kam und wenn man dann sieht, wie er jetzt gedrängt wird, zu wettern gegen dasjenige, was sein ganzes Geistesleben gebildet hat. Es ist das tragischste Ereignis der Gegenwart für eine solche Seele, das sich nur denken läßt. 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