{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 177/1917-10-13/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You may well feel that something is missing in what I have been saying. If your sense for pedantic accuracy—and this, too, has its justification—begins to stir in your hearts as I say these things, you will no doubt say I ought to give you proof that the life of the whole earth must be compared to the organism and an individual State to a cell. Well, the proof of the pudding lies in the eating; it does not lie in the abstract deliberations which we can always go into, but in taking the thought to its conclusion. If you do so with regard to Kjellen's idea, you will always find that it cannot be taken to its conclusion. You will keep running into a brick wall, and you will have to turn into a goat; otherwise you cannot take it to its conclusion. Yet if you take the thought to its conclusion for the life of the whole earth, you will find that it works, that you gain useful insights and it makes a good regulative principle. You will come to understand many things, even more than I have already indicated.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Abstraction and Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-10-13","location":null,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/177/1917-10-13/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Führen Sie ihn im Kjellénschen Sinne durch, dann werden Sie überall finden: Er läßt sich nicht durchführen. Sie müssen sich mit den Hörnern stoßen; Sie müssen zum Bock werden, sonst können Sie ihn nicht durchführen. Führen Sie aber den Gedanken für das Leben der ganzen Erde durch, dann taugt der Begriff, dann kommen Sie zu ganz fruchtbaren Einsichten, dann wird Ihnen das ein sehr gutes regulatives Prinzip sein. Sie werden sehr vieles verstehen, und Sie werden noch mehr verstehen, als was ich jetzt schon angedeutet habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/177/1917-10-13/p021"}],"english":["GA 177/1917-10-13/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":193,"en_words":192,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6747,"original_word_count":6463,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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