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The symptomatic approach to history tries to understand our inner, spiritual evolution on the basis of symptoms, and it finds at certain times particular events that are of far greater significance than other, concurrent happenings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Balance in Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-07-04","location":null,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/169/1916-07-04/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Sabine H. 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Wir können es ja bemerken, daß seit fast zwei Jahren die Menschen so sprechen über die Ereignisse der Geschichte, über die Ereignisse, die zu diesen gegenwärtigen, furchtbar tragischen Konflikten geführt haben, als ob die Welt überhaupt erst ihren Anfang genommen hätte im Juli 1914. Die Menschen vergessen so leicht, was vorher geschehen ist. In zahlreichen Betrachtungen finden wir heute, wie dasjenige, was vorhergegangen ist, einfach vergessen wird. Aber davon noch ganz abgesehen, wenn man Geschichte schon einmal betrachtet, so wird das Folgende an das Vorhergehende angereiht, das Vorhergehende wiederum an das Nächstvorhergehende. Man macht das so, daß man immer, ich möchte sagen, die einzelnen Tatsachen aneinanderreiht, wie die einzelnen Perlen einer Perlenkette. Das nennt man dann Geschichte. Dadurch aber kann man niemals die Wahrheit finden, mindestens kann man nicht eine solche Wahrheit finden, daß sie uns als geschichtliche Wahrheit für das Leben helfen kann. Denn die Ereignisse folgen zwar aufeinander, eines auf das andere, aber das eine Ereignis ist viel wichtiger als das andere. Und zuweilen zeigt sich an einem bestimmten Ereignisse, das in einer bestimmten Zeit stattfindet, viel mehr für das Verständnis des nächstfolgenden, als durch andere Ereignisse. Es handelt sich darum, daß man die richtigen Ereignisse, die richtigen Tatsachen findet. Solch eine Geschichtsbetrachtung nannte ich oftmals vor Ihnen eine symptomatische Geschichtsbetrachtung, im Gegensatz zu der bloß pragmatischen, die man heute vielfach sucht, eine Erkenntnis des inneren, des geistigen Werdeganges aus Symptomen, wobei man an gewissen Stellen Ereignisse findet, die die Ereignisse ihrer Umgebung an Bedeutung überragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p006"}],"english":["GA 169/1916-07-04/p010","GA 169/1916-07-04/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":322,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5529,"original_word_count":5564,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Sabine H. 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