{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"To some extent, people today are looking for what they are accustomed to seeking in other areas. How deeply ingrained it has become in people today not to help themselves, that is, not to learn what can help them in one situation or another, but to be helped and not to worry about the principles by which they are helped. Why should we trouble ourselves today about the best way to live in terms of our health? We let ourselves be prescribed for by someone who is there for that purpose, and then we do not need to check the principles according to which he prescribes; we hand over our fate to the one who is set up as an authority. Why should we not be particularly inclined to surrender our destiny to someone else when we are on the spiritual path, the most important human path? But what if the very work that inspires us to do so is dedicated above all to making the human soul independent!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ninth Lecture","site_heading":"Soul's Independence and Spiritual Science's Defense Against Slander","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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Man läßt es sich verschreiben von einem, der dafür da ist, und man braucht dann nicht nachzuprüfen, nach welchen Prinzipien er verschreibt, man übergibt sein Schicksal demjenigen, der als Autorität aufgestellt ist. Warum sollte man denn nicht gerade auf dem geistigen Wege, auf dem menschlich wichtigsten Wege zunächst den Drang haben, auch sein Schicksal irgendeinem anderen zu übergeben? Aber wenn nun gerade dasjenige Werk, wodurch man dazu angeregt wird, am allermeisten sich zur Aufgabe macht, die Menschenseele selbständig zu machen!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1917-05-11/p015"}],"english":["GA 174b/1917-05-11/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":166,"en_words":169,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9678,"original_word_count":9444,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19170511p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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