{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The development of the modern scientific outlook is another factor which has contributed to the abolition of the soul. This outlook—I am speaking not of the positive achievements of the scientific “Weltanschauung”, which accepts only the reality of the corporeal and regards everything pertaining to the soul as an epiphenomenon, a superstructure on what is corporeal—this scientific outlook is the direct consequence of that development which we have just seen in the decisive impulses of the eighth Ecumenical Council. But the majority of mankind will probably not believe in this possibility until, originating from certain centres of world evolution, the abolition of the soul will receive more or less legal sanction. It will not be long before decrees are promulgated in several States declaring that those who take seriously the existence of the soul are not of sound mind, and only those will be regarded of sound mind who recognize the “truth”, namely that thinking, feeling and willing are the necessary by-products of certain physiological processes. Various steps have already been taken in this direction, but so long as they are confined to the realm of theory they can have no deep or lasting influence or significance. It is only when they are translated into practice in the social order that they exercise a deep and lasting influence. The first half of the present century will scarcely be over before those who are clear-sighted will be faced with an alarming situation by the abolition of the soul, akin to the abolition of the spirit that occurred in the ninth century.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Reality-Based Thinking and the Spirit's Suppression","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-03-27","location":null,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-03-27/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Nur wird vielleicht ein großer Teil der Menschheit an die Sache nicht glauben, bis, von gewissen Zentren der Erdenentwickelung herkommend, die Abschaffung der Seele Gesetzeskraft erlangen wird; mehr oder weniger Gesetzeskraft erlangen wird. Denn es wird gar nicht lange dauern, so werden in mancherlei Staaten Gesetze entstehen, welche darauf hinauslaufen werden, jeden, der im Ernste von einer Seele spricht, als nicht vollsinnig zu erklären, und für einen ganz vollsinnigen Menschen nur denjenigen zu erklären, welcher die «Wahrheit» einsieht, daß Denken, Fühlen und Wollen aus gewissen Vorgängen des Leibes entstehen auf ganz notwendige Weise. Begonnen hat ja nach dieser Richtung Verschiedenes, aber solange das, was da begonnen hat, nur theoretische Anschauung ist, so lange hat es nicht seine große, tief einschneidende Wirkung und Bedeutung. Es erlangt diese tief einschneidende Wirkung und Bedeutung, wenn es in die soziale Ordnung, in das soziale Leben der Menschen übergeht. Und da wird kaum die erste Hälfte dieses Jahrhunderts zu Ende gehen, ohne daß auf diesen Gebieten dasjenige geschieht, was für den Einsichtigen ein Furchtbares ist: eben ein solches Perhorreszieren der Seele, wie dazumal im neunten Jahrhundert der Geist perhorresziert worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-03-27/p024"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-03-27/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":260,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6812,"original_word_count":7035,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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