{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 177/1917-10-13/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For three years now we have been caught up in terrible events which can teach us a great deal; we must be awake in following events, however, and not asleep. It is really something to marvel at, negatively speaking, that so many people are still asleep to the reality of these terrible events and still have not come to the realization that events which have never happened before in the world evolution of humanity demand that we develop new ideas, which also have not existed before. Let me put this more accurately in symbolic form. We may certainly say that some individuals had a notion that this war was coming and they may have had it for many years. Generally speaking, it can be said, however, that with the exception of certain groups in the Anglo-American world, the war was completely unexpected. With those who had an idea of its coming, the idea sometimes took a very odd form. One idea, which could be found again and again, came from economists and politicians who were deep thinkers—I assure you, I am not being ironical, I am completely serious about this—and was based on careful deductions made with reference to certain events. These people proceeded in a very scientific way, combining, abstracting and making all kinds of syntheses, and finally arrived at an idea which one really did come across for a long time, even at the time when war broke out. It was that in the light of the present world situation, of economic factors and the trade situation, this war could not possibly go on for more than four or six months. This was a truth fully supported by factual evidence. And the reasons given were far from stupid; they were perfectly good reasons.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Abstraction and Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-10-13","location":null,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/177/1917-10-13/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. Meuss","identified_edition":"RSP1993","book_title":"The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA177/English/RSP1993/19171013p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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 schon sagen: Einige Leute haben sich ja schon seit Jahren Begriffe gemacht davon, daß dieser Krieg kommen werde. Im allgemeinen kann man sagen, daß mit Ausnahme gewisser Kreise der anglo-amerikanischen Bevölkerung die Welt von diesem Kriege überrascht worden ist in gewissem Sinne. Aber immerhin, einzelne Leute haben sich Vorstellungen gemacht, daß der Krieg kommen werde, allerdings manchmal ganz merkwürdige Vorstellungen. Eine Vorstellung namentlich konnte man immer wieder und wiederum finden, eine Vorstellung, welche von tiefgründigen - ich meine das wirklich nicht ironisch, ich spreche in vollem Ernst Nationalökonomen, Nationalpolitikern ausgegangen ist, welche auf einer sorgfältigen Abstraktion aus diesen oder jenen Vorgängen beruhte. Die Leute haben viel wissenschaftlich gearbeitet, kombiniert, abstrahiert, allerlei Synthesen gemacht und sind dann dazu gekommen, eine Vorstellung auszubilden, die man wirklich lange Zeit hindurch, auch noch beim Ausbruch des Krieges - da ist sie besonders viel wiederholt worden -, vielfach getroffen hat: die Vorstellung, daß nach den gegenwärtigen Weltverhältnissen, nach den wirtschaftlichen, den kommerziellen Zusammenhängen dieser Krieg unmöglich länger als vier bis sechs Monate dauern kann. Es war streng bewiesen, eine streng bewiesene Wahrheit. Und es sind wahrhaftig nicht dumme Gründe, die man angewendet hat; es waren ganz gescheite Gründe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/177/1917-10-13/p024"}],"english":["GA 177/1917-10-13/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":295,"ratio":1.01,"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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