{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p059","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today the human being should not move blindly through earthly evolution; he must be able to see through such relationships. Europe will be able to come into a proper relationship with America only when such conditions can be understood, when it is known what geographical determinants come from there. Otherwise, if Europe continues to be blind to these things, it will be with this poor Europe as it was with Greece in relation to Rome. This should not be; the world should not be geographically Americanized. First, however, this must be understood. Things should not be taken with such lack of seriousness as is so common today. Things have deep foundations, and knowledge is necessary today, not merely sympathy and antipathy, in order to gain a position in the connections in which present-day humanity is so tragically placed. Such things as we can discuss here more intimately can only be hinted at in public lectures. Yesterday I called attention to the necessity for spiritual science really to penetrate also into social and political concepts. For America's endeavor is to mechanize everything, to drive everything into the realm of pure naturalism, and gradually to extinguish European culture from the earth. It cannot be otherwise. Obviously geographical concepts are not concepts of a people as such. It is only necessary to think of Emerson in order to know that nothing is intended here as characteristic of a people. But Emerson was a man of European education through and through. This *simply* shows the two opposite poles that are developing. Precisely under such influences as have been characterized today, people such as Emerson develop, who develop as they do because they confront the double with complete humanity. On the other hand, people are developing such as Woodrow Wilson, who is a mere sheath of the double, through whom the double himself works with special effectiveness. Such people are essentially actual embodiments of the geographic nature of America.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Dasjenige Gebiet, wo am meisten Einfluß hat auf den Doppelgänger das, was von unten heraufströmt, und wo es dadurch, daß es beim Doppelgänger am meisten Verwandtschaft eingeht mit dem Ausströmenden, also sich auch wieder der Erde mitteilt, das ist dasjenige Erdengebiet, wo die meisten Gebirge nicht von Westen nach Osten, in der Querrichtung hin, sondern wo die Gebirge hauptsächlich von Norden nach Süden gehen — denn das hängt auch mit diesen Kräften zusammen -, wo man den magnetischen Nordpol in der Nähe hat. Das ist das Gebiet, wo vor allen Dingen Verwandtschaft entwickelt wird mit der mephistophelisch-ahrimanischen Natur durch die äußeren Verhältnisse. Und durch diese Verwandtschaft wird vieles bewirkt in der fortschreitenden Entwickelung der Erde. Der Mensch darf heute nicht blind durch die Entwickelung der Erde gehen; er muß solche Verhältnisse durchschauen. Europa wird sich zu Amerika nur dann in ein richtiges Verhältnis setzen können, wenn solche Verhältnisse durchschaut werden können, wenn man weiß, welche geographischen Bedingtheiten von dorther kommen. Sonst aber, wenn Europa fortfahren wird, in diesen Dingen blind zu sein, dann wird es mit diesem armen Europa so gehen, wie es mit Griechenland gegenüber Rom gegangen ist. Das darf nicht sein; die Welt darf nicht geographisch amerikanisiert werden. Aber das muß erst verstanden werden. Die Dinge dürfen nicht so unernst genommen werden, wie sie heute vielfach genommen werden. Denn sehen Sie, die Dinge beruhen in tiefen Gründen, und Erkenntnisse sind heute notwendig, nicht bloß Sympathien und Antipathien, um eine Stellung zu gewinnen in dem Zusammenhange, in den die gegenwärtige Menschheit auf eine so tragische Weise hineingestellt ist. Das sind die Dinge, die wir hier noch genauer besprechen können; in öffentlichen Vorträgen können sie nu angedeutet werden. Gestern habe ich aufmerksam gemacht, wie es notwendig ist, daß dasjenige, was Geisteswissenschaft genannt wird, wirklich auch in die sozialen und in die politischen Begriffe hineindringt. Denn Amerikas Bestreben geht darauf hinaus, alles zu mechanisieren, alles in das Gebiet des reinen Naturalismus hineinzutreiben, Europas Kultur nach und nach vom Erdboden auszulöschen. Es kann nicht anders.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p044"},{"locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p045","passage_number":45,"text":"Selbstverständlich sind das geographische Begriffe, nicht völkische Begriffe. Man braucht nur an Emerson zu denken, um zu wissen, daß hier nichts als Charakteristik eines Volkes gemeint ist. Aber Emerson war eben ein durch und durch europäisch gebildeter Mensch. Nicht wahr, das sind ja zwei entgegengesetzte Pole, die sich entwickeln. Gerade unter solchen Einflüssen, wie sie heute charakterisiert werden, entwickeln sich Menschen wie Emerson, die sich dadurch so entwickeln, daß sie die volle Menschlichkeit entgegenstellen dem Doppelgänger, oder es entwickeln sich Menschen wie Woodrow Wilson, die nur eine Umhüllung des Doppelgängers sind, durch die der Doppelgänger selbst ganz besonders wirkt, die im wesentlichen eigentlich Verleiblichungen desjenigen sind, was amerikanische geographische Natur ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p045"}],"english":["GA 178/1917-11-16/p058","GA 178/1917-11-16/p059"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":494,"en_words":498,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"evidence":["length","anchors"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10164,"original_word_count":10093,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Alice Wulsin","identified_edition":"MP1986","book_title":"Geographic Medicine","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/MP1986/19171116p01.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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