{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-15/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Imagine a teacher without any pupils; there is no such thing. In the same way there cannot be a commercial empire without another region which is its counterpart. Therefore if a British commercial empire is founded, then a Russian opposite pole must be founded too. So that a differentiation can arise between buying and selling, so that the necessary circulation can come about, two regions are needed. If the whole world were to be made into a unified realm, it would be impossible to found a universal commercial realm. It is not quite the same, but similar to saying that if you produce something you need a buyer, otherwise you cannot produce. So this twofold split is necessary. And the fact that this has been initiated as a major trend is a great—indeed, a gigantic—conception on the part of those secret brotherhoods of which I have spoken. To create this contrast is a conception of universal proportions, against which everything else pales into insignificance: this contrast, between the British commercial empire on the one hand and, on the other, all that emanates from the Russian sphere involving, through their spiritual capacities, preparations for the sixth post-Atlantean period, together with everything I have described to you. It is a great, gigantic, admirable conception of these secret brotherhoods about whom we have spoken. Put simply, it is hardly possible to imagine a better opposite pole for what has developed in the West—namely, the supreme flowering of commercial and industrial thought—than the future Russian Slav who in times to come is sure to be even less inclined than he is today to occupy himself professionally with commercial matters, and who, just because of this, will be an excellent polar opposite.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XX","site_heading":"Central Europe's Spiritual Opposition to Western Materialism","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ich kann es aber heute nur andeuten. Will man nämlich eine kommerziell-industrielle Weltherrschaft begründen, so muß man das Hauptgebiet, auf das es ankommt, zunächst in zwei Teile teilen. Das hängt zusammen mit der Natur des Kommerziell-Industriellen. Ich kann mich nur durch einen Vergleich ausdrücken: Es fordert dasjenige, was auf der Welt des physischen Planes geschieht, immer eine Zweispaltung. Stellen Sie sich einmal einen Lehrer ohne Schüler vor — das gibt es nicht. So kann auch nicht ein Kommerzium da sein ohne ein Gebiet, das einem Kommerzium gegenübersteht. Daher muß ebenso, wie auf der einen Seite das britische Kommerzium begründet wird, der russische als der dazugehörige gegensätzliche Pol geschaffen werden. Damit sich die entsprechende Differenzierung ergibt zwischen Einkauf und Verkauf, damit sich die Zirkulation ergibt, braucht man diese zwei Gebiete. Man kann nicht die ganze Welt zu einem einheitlichen Reiche machen; da würde man nicht ein kommerzielles Weltreich begründen können. Es ist das nicht genau dasselbe, aber es ist ähnlich damit, daß wenn man etwas erzeugt, man Abnehmer braucht; sonst kann man nicht erzeugen. So muß es die Zwiespältigkeit geben. Und daß man dieses als einen großen Zug hereingebracht hat in die Sache, das ist ein großer, ein gigantischer Gedanke von jenen okkulten Brüderschaften, von denen ich gesprochen habe. Es ist ein weltgigantischer Gedanke, den Gegensatz zu schaffen, gegenüber dem alles andere als eine Kleinigkeit erscheint, diesen Gegensatz zwischen dem britischen Kommerzimperium und demjenigen, was sich aus dem Russischen heraus ergibt mit der durch die spirituellen Anlagen bewirkten Vorbereitung für den sechsten nachatlantischen Zeitraum mit alledem, was ich Ihnen geschildert habe. — Das ist ein großer, gigantischer, bewundernswürdiger Gedanke von diesen okkulten Brüderschaften, von denen gesprochen worden ist. Denn, trivial ausgedrückt, man kann sich kaum einen schöneren Gegenpol denken für dasjenige, was sich im Westen als höchste Blüte des kommerziellen und industriellen Denkens ausbildete, als den künftigen russischen Slawen, der in der Zukunft ganz gewiß noch weniger als heute geneigt sein wird, sich mit Kommerziellem berufsmäßig zu betätigen, und der ja gerade dadurch ein ganz ausgezeichneter Gegenpol sein wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":370,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-15/p026"}],"english":["GA 173c/1917-01-15/p034","GA 173c/1917-01-15/p035"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":370,"en_words":392,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12855,"original_word_count":12089,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1988","book_title":"The Karma of Untruthfulness II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA173c/English/RSP1988/19170115p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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