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And the consequence was that, because he ran away from every teacher, in the end nothing could be done at all. One had indulgence after indulgence, but nothing special could be done, nothing pleased the person concerned. For, of course, in his eyes this was again such a blatant case of how the world misunderstands the nascent genius! That no one else could honestly share this view, yes, my dear friends, it was truly not our fault. That is the main thing, all other things are secondary. And so it was with this person as it is with many. They first seek advancement within our society, and when this advancement is not granted to them according to their mind, they become opponents. And then they come forward with all kinds of things. Of course, they never talk about what is behind things. They come up with all kinds of things that are best refuted by first explaining the reasons. Of course, in this case it was pure offended vanity and incompetence. And everything else that was added as a fuss was the most foolish invention, the most foolish fantasy. But today, of course, you find the journals that take up these things. Because the person I mean is called Erich Bamler. And if you really get to the bottom of things in such undertakings, then you don't need to take on such an essay, which mostly doesn't mean anything, because all the individual things don't express what they say, but","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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Allein immer stellte es sich heraus, daß die Sache namentlich daran scheiterte, daß der Betreffende zwar eine Kunst ausüben, aber nichts lernen wollte, weil er der Ansicht war, mehr zu können als alle die Lehrer, die für ihn sorgen wollten. Und die Folge war, daß, weil er jedem Lehrer davonlief, man am Schlusse gar nichts mehr tun konnte. Man hatte Nachsicht über Nachsicht, konnte aber nichts Besonderes mehr tun, es gefiel dem Betreffenden nichts. Denn selbstverständlich war das wiederum in seinen Augen so ein eklatanter Fall, wie die Welt das werdende Genie verkennt! Daß niemand anderer diese Ansicht in ehrlicher Weise teilen konnte, ja, meine lieben Freunde, es war wahrhaftig nicht unsere Schuld. Das ist die Hauptsache, alle anderen Dinge sind Nebensache. Und so ging es denn bei diesem Menschen so, wie es bei vielen geht. Sie suchen zuerst eine Förderung innerhalb unserer Gesellschaft, und wenn ihnen diese Förderung nach ihrem Sinn nicht zuteil wird, werden sie Gegner. Und dann treten sie mit allerlei Dingen auf. Von dem, was hinter den Dingen steht, davon reden sie nie, selbstverständlich. Sie treten mit allerlei Dingen auf, die man dann am besten widerlegt, wenn man erst die Gründe darlegt. Selbstverständlich war es die purste gekränkte Eitelkeit und Unfähigkeit in diesem Falle. Und alles übrige, was nun als Brimborium darauf aufgerichtet wurde, war die allertörichteste Erfindung, die allertörichteste Phantasterei. Aber heute findet man selbstverständlich die Journale, die diese Dinge aufnehmen. Denn der Betreffende, den ich meine, heißt Erich Bamler. 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