{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When such things are discussed one is invariably accused of exaggeration. But they are not exaggerated and one must speak about them, for they are the truth and must be recognized. There is evidence of these things everywhere but the awareness of them is not great enough to realize their implications. Take the following example which could be multiplied a thousandfold: In the year 1909 in Russia a conversation took place between two men concerning the relation of Russia to Central Europe. This was soon after Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[^3] The conversation took place as feelings in Russia were running high, threatening already then to bring about the terrible situation which finally erupted in 1914. That the 1914 war did not break out already in 1909 hung on a thread. It was prevented, but this was not thanks to certain quarters in Russia. These things must be seen as they truly are. The two men, one a Croatian, the other Russian, discussed in particular the relation between Russia and Austria. After they had looked at all existing possibilities for stabilizing relations between Central and Eastern Europe the Russians summed up his own view by saying: “A war between Russia and Austria-Germany would be, not only utterly inhuman, but also completely senseless.” These sensible words, which were by no means based on emotions, summed up well-thought-out, well-considered judgements about the structure of Central and Eastern Europe. When I now mention the name of the Russian who spoke them you will have confirmation of what has just been discussed. The Russian who so vehemently rejected war in 1909 was Lvov.[^4] Five years later in 1914—when he could not after all have changed into someone completely different—we find him as the president of the first revolutionary Russian Government. In other words he was by then the person at the very center of all the events that have led to the present miseries in 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":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p028","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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Man kann nur nicht die Empfindung stark genug machen, um wirklich zu fühlen, was damit eigentlich gesagt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":56,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p022"},{"locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Nehmen Sie folgenden Fall, man könnte diesen Fall ins Tausendfache vermehren: Zwei Menschen reden 1909 in Rußland über die Beziehungen zwischen Rußland und Mitteleuropa, 1909, unmittelbar nach der österreichischen Annexion in Bosnien und der Herzegowina. Das Gespräch fand statt in derselben Zeit, in welcher die Wogen in Rußland ungeheuer hoch gingen, die eigentlich dahin zielten, schon damals, jenen furchtbaren Zustand herbeizuführen, der dann 1914 gekommen ist. Denn es hing ja an einem Faden, so wäre der Krieg, der 1914 ausgebrochen ist, schon 1909 ausgebrochen. An gewissen Kreisen Rußlands hing es wirklich nicht, daß er nicht damals ausgebrochen ist. Diesen Dingen muß man nur trocken ins Antlitz schauen. Zwei Menschen, ein Kroate und ein Russe, redeten also in dieser Zeit über das Verhältnis von Rußland namentlich zu Österreich. Das Gespräch führte dahin, daß der Russe, nachdem die beiden alle Möglichkeiten besprochen hatten, auf eine vernünftige Weise das Verhältnis zwischen Mittel- und Osteuropa zu ordnen, seine Anschauung in die Worte zusammengefaßt hat: Ein Krieg zwischen Rußland und Osterreich-Deutschland wäre nicht nur das Unmenschlichste, sondern auch das Unsinnigste. Diese Worte: Ein Krieg zwischen Rußland und Österreich-Deutschland wäre nicht nur das Unmenschlichste, sondern auch das Unsinnigste waren die Zusammenfassung von vernünftigen Gedanken über die soziale Struktur von Mittel- und Osteuropa. Also nicht etwa bloß aus der Emotion, dem Gefühl, sondern aus der, ich möchte sagen, weisheitsvollen Vernunft heraus gesprochene Worte. Man braucht nur den Namen des Russen zu nennen, der diese Worte 1909 gesprochen hat, um erhärtet zu finden, was vorhin auseinandergesetzt wurde; denn dieser Russe, der den Krieg in der Weise ablehnte — der 1909 nicht anders geworden wäre, als er 1914 geworden ist —, der Russe ist Lwow, derjenige, der dann der erste Ministerpräsident des ersten revolutionären russischen Ministeriums wurde, also derjenige, um den herum alle diese Dinge vorgegangen sind, die das Elend Europas in der Gegenwart ausmachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p023"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p028"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":362,"en_words":323,"ratio":0.89,"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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