{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The present age is as yet a long way from studying either history or life in this way. Yet only by bringing things of this nature together, and relating them with a deeper understanding to current events, can one become conscious of what is really happening in the world. The present age has to an unprecedented degree robbed the first half of the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements; this also applies to the second half but to a lesser degree. It is indeed justified to speak about forgotten aspects of spiritual life in relation to the 19th Century; even more than I have done in my book *Vom Menschenrätsel*. Some day the history of the 19th Century will have to be rewritten. This was felt by Hermann Grimm[^2] when he said: “A time will come when the history of the last decades will be completely rewritten. When this happens those who are now looked upon as great figures will appear rather puny and others, quite different figures, which are now forgotten will emerge as the great ones.” One comes to realize what a “fable convenue” the official history of the 19th Century is when one attempts to study its history as it truly is and can recognize the forces that were at work. The reason I said that our time has robbed the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements is because that century produced many thinkers who, for lack of recognition, were condemned to isolation. African Spir is a characteristic example. In saying this I am not referring to the public in general but to those who, through their vocation, had a duty to be interested in him and his work. When such human beings die and their souls pass into the spiritual world they do not just vanish. They continue to be influential from the spiritual world in ways of which there is usually little inkling.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p018","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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Die Geschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts wird in der künftigen Zeit einmal völlig umgeschrieben werden müssen. Das hat schon Herman Grimm geahnt, als er sagte: Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in welcher die Geschichte der letzten Jahrzehnte völlig wird umgeschrieben werden, so daß diejenigen Großen, welche heute als solche erscheinen, sehr starke Kleinheiten werden und ganz andere Große auftauchen werden, die heute wie Vergessene da sind. - Wer darauf ausgeht, die wirkliche Geschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts zu studieren, der merkt erst, was für eine Fable convenue die landläufige Geschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ist. Und insbesondere merkt man das, wenn man die wirkliche Wesenskraft des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ins Auge fassen kann. Ich sagte: Raubbau getrieben hat unsere Zeit mit den geistigen Erzeugnissen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, denn es hat viele, viele Geister gegeben, welche vereinsamt geblieben sind in dieser Zeit, um die man sich nicht gekümmert hat, und African Spir ist gleich eine charakteristische Erscheinung innerhalb dieses neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Ich will nicht sprechen vom großen Publikum, aber gerade diejenigen haben sich um African Spir nicht gekümmert, deren berufliche Aufgabe es gewesen wäre, sich um ihn zu kümmern. Solche Menschen sterben dann dahin, das heißt, sie gehen mit ihrer Seele in die geistige Welt hinein. Aber die Dinge dieser Welt, sie haben Wirkungen, von denen man, wenn man nur das gewöhnliche Dasein betrachtet, in der Regel wenig ahnt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p013"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p018"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":323,"en_words":318,"ratio":0.98,"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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