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During the Graeco-Latin epoch of civilisation it became possible to acquire more knowledge of the outer world and at that very time it was also made possible for man to discover how they might place their knowledge in the service of the Divine, by the coming of Christ with His message to the Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-08-07","location":null,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/170/1916-08-07/p019","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Riddle of Humanity","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/English/Singles/19160807p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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