{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 177/1917-10-13/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Take care, of course, not to squeeze these words too much, for squeezing the last out of a word is something which often leads to misunderstanding today. People might think, for instance, that I want to hit out at the American people, or the Anglo-American peoples, when I speak of Wilsonianism or Lloyd-Georgianism. This is not at all the case. I am deliberately calling it ‘Wilsonianism’ because I mean something quite specific. But far be it from me to mean something which you could simply call ‘Americanism’. This is another case where one has to concentrate on the real situation. Some of the tirades to have come from Mr Wilson[^9] in recent times did not even originate on American soil. We cannot even do Mr Wilson the honour of calling his tirades original. They are worthless and untrue and they are not even entirely original. The strange thing is that a writer in Berlin, someone with considerable acumen, has written articles which were Wilsonian without being Wilson's. They did rather well, these articles, though not in Germany. They did well in the American Congress and you find them included, page by page, in the *Proceedings* of Congress, because they were read out at Congress meetings. Some of Wilson's more recent tirades may be found in those pages. Some of the fabrications Wilson produces against Central Europe have their origin there. So they are not even original. It should be rather interesting, quite a joke in fact, when future historians look at the *Proceedings* of the American Congress and find there was a time when those gentlemen decided not to present their own brilliant ideas but to read out the articles by the writer in Berlin, and those pages were then included in their *Proceedings*, with ‘Proceedings of the American Congress’ written on the cover.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Abstraction and Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-10-13","location":null,"word_count":304,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/177/1917-10-13/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Ein Teil der Tiraden, die in der letzten Zeit von Mr. Wilson gekommen sind, sind gar nicht einmal auf amerikanischem Boden gewachsen. Man kann gar nicht einmal Wilson das Lob zuerkennen, daß seine Tiraden ganz originell sind. Sie sind ja nichts wert, sie sind unwahr; aber sie sind nicht einmal ganz originell. Denn es liegt die merkwürdige Tatsache vor, daß von einem Berliner Schriftsteller geistreiche Artikel geschrieben worden sind, nur just nicht Artikel, die im Sinne der deutschen Weltauffassung sind, Artikel, die Wilsonianismus ohne Wilson waren, sehr scharfsinnige Artikel. Diese Artikel haben Glück gemacht, allerdings nicht gerade in Deutschland, aber im amerikanischen Kongreß, denn sie sind gesammelt worden, und Sie finden sie eingeheftet durch viele Seiten hindurch in den Kongreßakten des amerikanischen Kongresses; sie sind nämlich in den Verhandlungen des amerikanischen Kongresses verlesen worden, und manche von den neueren Tiraden des Herrn Wilson sind diesen Seiten entnommen. Manches von dem, was Herr Wilson fabriziert gegen Mitteleuropa, hat diesen Ursprung. Es ist also nicht einmal originell. Es wird immerhin eine ganz interessante, humoristische Tatsache der zukünftigen Geschichtsschreibung sein, wenn man in den Akten über die Verhandlungen des amerikanischen Kongresses findet: Die Herren haben eine Zeitlang verzichtet, ihre eigenen erleuchteten Ideen vorzubringen, und vorgelesen die Artikel eines Berliner Schriftstellers, diese dann eingeheftet in die Kongreßakten und darauf «amerikanische Kongreßakten» geschrieben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":312,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/177/1917-10-13/p030"}],"english":["GA 177/1917-10-13/p035"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":312,"en_words":304,"ratio":0.97,"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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