{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It may be said that scientific research in particular has reached a certain level today, and that this level of scientific research would be accessible to those who are called upon today to represent the natural sciences if most of them did not simply become absorbed in their subject and did not go beyond the boundaries of their subject. If only, I might say, a dozen of the official representatives — and only these are listened to today — would make an honest effort to examine with the most profound honesty what is contained in my 'Occult Science: An Outline of the Fundamental Principles of the Science of Man and Nature', ' and in my 'Theosophy', they would find everything confirmed from the side that can be characterized by saying: Look at life, whether life does not confirm what can be experienced through spiritual science, what is sought here from the spiritual world! — Anyone who really masters natural science today comes to the verification of what anthroposophically oriented spiritual science gives. This is absolutely a truth. But we are faced with the peculiar fact that precisely those who could undertake such an examination are absolutely not concerned about it, have not been concerned about it until now — I am ignoring those who, in our circles, have received the stimulus for it — that no one has set themselves the task of really testing the spiritual-scientific results of anthroposophy against the, fully understood, natural-scientific research of the present! The spiritual-scientific research really has no need to fear this test; it will pass it. It should only be employed, it will be passed. But admittedly, in a time when one is not even inclined to go into the most primitive truths, this test will perhaps take a long time.","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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Wenn sich nur, ich will sagen, ein Dutzend der offiziellen Vertreter —- und nur diese werden ja heute gehört — aufraffen würden mit innerster Ehrlichkeit, und dann mit dem, was sich ergibt aus diesem naturwissenschaftlichen Stand, dasjenige prüfen würden, was in’meiner «Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß», in meiner «Theosophie» steht, dann würden sie alles von der Seite her bewahrheitet finden, die man charakterisieren kann, indem man sagt: Seht euch das Leben an, ob das Leben dasjenige nicht bestätigt, was durch Geisteswissenschaft erfahren werden kann, was hier aus der geistigen Welt heraus gesucht wird! — Wer heute Naturwissenschaft wirklich beherrscht, kommt zur Beglaubigung desjenigen, was anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft gibt. Dies ist durchaus eine Wahrheit. Aber wir stehen vor der eigentümlichen Tatsache, daß sich gerade diejenigen, die eine solche Prüfung vornehmen könnten, absolut nicht darum kümmern, bis jetzt nicht sich darum gekümmert: haben, daß niemand diese Fragen auch nur aufgeworfen hat — von denjenigen sehe ich ab, die aus unseren Kreisen die Anregung dazu empfangen haben —, daß niemand die Aufgabe sich gestellt hat, die geisteswissenschaftlichen Resultate der Anthroposophie an der, aber voll verstandenen, naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung der Gegenwart wirklich zu prüfen! Vor dieser Prüfung braucht die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung wahrhaftig nicht die geringste Angst zu haben, die wird sie bestehen. Sie soll nur angestellt werden, sie wird bestanden werden. Aber allerdings, in einer Zeit, in der man nicht einmal die Geneigtheit hat, auf die allerprimitivsten Wahrheiten einzugehen, wird diese Prüfung vielleicht noch lange auf sich warten lassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1917-05-11/p016"}],"english":["GA 174b/1917-05-11/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":299,"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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