{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This attitude to thinking causes in people strange feelings when they hear that a spiritual world penetrates the physical world. They are afraid of thinking because they sense that this is where the spiritual world enters, and, as they insist that there is no spiritual world, they will have nothing to do with thinking. You may remember my explaining that what is understood by the word genius will change in the course of evolution. I pointed out that what makes someone a genius can only be understood by assuming that more spirit is active in him than in a non-genius. When the discoveries of a genius happen to be of a mechanical nature he meets great admiration. If his genius takes other forms people are nowadays apt to vent their aversion to such proof of spiritual power on the genius himself. A rather interesting essay has appeared on the subject of genius. After arguing that a genius is someone partly sick, partly mad the essay culminates with this curious sentence: “Let us thank God we are not all geniuses!”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p026","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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Sie fürchten ja das Denken auch nur aus dem Grunde, weil sie spüren, daß da die geistige Welt im Denken hereinragt. Aber das wollen sie nicht, denn die geistige Welt, die gibt es ja gar nicht! Sie erinnern sich wohl, wie ich Ihnen auseinandergesetzt habe, welche Umwandelung mit dem Wesen des Genies im Laufe der Entwickelung vor sich gehen wird. Jedenfalls wird Sie aber diese Betrachtung dazumal darauf aufmerksam gemacht haben, daß man das Genie nur dann in seiner wahren Wesenhaftigkeit betrachtet, wenn man annimmt, daß durch das Genie mehr der Geist wirkt als durch das Nichtgenie. Wenn das Genie gerade mechanische Erfindungen macht, dann lassen es sich die Leute der Gegenwart gefallen, aber sonst haben sie auch die Sehnsucht, ihre Abneigung gegen den Geist gewissermaßen auf das Genie zu übertragen. Und in einer nicht uninteressanten Abhandlung eines Naturforschers über einen genialen Menschen finden Sie einen sehr merkwürdigen Satz. Nachdem der Naturforscher auseinandergesetzt hat, daß eigentlich ein genialer Mensch halb krank, halb verrückt ist, versteigt er sich zu dem Ausspruch: Danken wir alle Gott, daß wir keine Genies sind!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p020"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p026"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":192,"en_words":179,"ratio":0.93,"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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