{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At present history is dealt with in a most unsatisfactory fashion. However, it can be foreseen how it will be dealt with in the future. At present external facts are always emphasized but they are not the essential. To hold on merely to external facts is comparable to undertaking a study of “Faust” by describing the letters page by page. An understanding of “Faust” is not dependent on the letters but on what is learnt through them. Similarly a time will come when consideration of history will depend as little on external facts as reading a book depends on a description of the letters. Behind the external facts the real history will be discerned, just as the meaning in “Faust” is discerned behind the printed letters. This is radically expressed but it does illustrate the situation. Ordinary history will be seen as a history that describes the symptoms; a man like African Spir will be seen as a symptom of the soul element of Eastern Europe merging with that of Central Europe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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Deshalb zeigt er so recht, wie es eine tiefe innere Wahrheit ist, was in der Geisteswissenschaft immer wieder und wiederum betont werden muß, daß eigentlich die europäische Bevölkerung wie ein auseinandergelegter Seelenmensch ist. Die westlichen Völker auseinandergelegt in Empfindungsseele, Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele und Bewußtseinsseele, die mitteleuropäischen Völker Ich-Seele, die osteuropäischen Völker Vorbereitung für das Geistselbst. Man kann sagen, daß einem heute vorschweben kann eine künftige Behandlung der Geschichtswelt. Die Geschichtswelt wird so ungenügend wie möglich in der Gegenwart eigentlich zur Darstellung gebracht. Man stellt immer die Tatsachen der Geschichte dar, aber diese Tatsachen als solche genommen sind nicht das Wesentliche. Wer bloß an die Tatsachen der Geschichte geht, gleicht einem Menschen, der den «Faust» vornimmt und die Buchstaben beschreibt, die Seite für Seite dastehen, aber es kommt jemandem, der wirklich den «Faust» kennenlernen will, nicht auf den Buchstaben an, sondern auf das, was er durch die Buchstaben kennen lernt. So wird einmal eine Geschichtsbetrachtung Platz greifen, der es geradesowenig auf die Tatsachen ankommt, wie es beim Lesen eines Buches auf die Beschreibung der Buchstaben ankommt, eine Betrachtung, welche lesen wird in den Tatsachen dasjenige, was hinter den Tatsachen der Geschichte steht, wie der «Faust» hinter den Buchstaben, die auf dem Papier vorhanden sind. Wenn das auch radikal gesagt ist, so deutet es doch auf das Richtige hin. Wenn man aber die Geschichte so betrachten wird, wird man sie als Symptomengeschichte auffassen, dann wird man so etwas wie African Spir als Symptom ansehen, wie ost- und mitteleuropäisches Wesen gerade in den Elementen der Seele ineinanderwachsen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":352,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p012"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p016","GA 176/1917-07-31/p017"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":352,"en_words":355,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6890,"original_word_count":7508,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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