{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 179/1917-12-15/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Something else must also work its way through; namely, evolution must develop in such a way that, on the one hand, the events of history may be compared to a growing tree (I have already used this picture during these considerations): but when the leaves have grown as far as the periphery, the tree ceases to grow. Here the dying process begins. It is the same with historical events. A certain group of events takes shape—let us describe it quite schematically:—Certain historical events have their roots. A definitive group of historical events may have their roots in the last third of the 18th century. I shall speak of this more clearly tomorrow. Other influences are added to these in the course of the 19th century, and so on. But you see, these historical events expand and reach their extreme boundaries. In this case the boundary is not the same as in the case of a tree or a plant, which does not grow beyond its periphery; but here a new root of historical events must begin. For decades, already, we have been living in a time in which such new historical events must spring out of direct intuition. But in the historical life of man, illusion can easily spread also over these things. To be sure, you can watch the growth of a plant, which grows according to its inner laws until it reaches a certain periphery and cannot grow beyond it. But now you can call forth an illusion—you can take wires, hang paper leaves on them, and give yourself the illusion that the plant continues to grow up to this point.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-12-15","location":null,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/179/1917-12-15/p028","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Bleiben wir bei dem Bilde, das ich in diesen Betrachtungen schon früher gebraucht habe: Es gibt eine ganz bestimmte Summe von geschichtlichen Ereignissen, die haben ihre Wurzeln im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts - davon werde ich dann morgen deutlicher sprechen -, dazu kommen andere Einflüsse im Lauf des 19. Jahrhunderts und so weiter. Und sehen Sie, diese historischen Ereignisse, die breiten sich aus und erreichen äußerste Grenzen (Siehe Zeichnung). Aber jene Grenzen sind nicht so wie bei einem Baum oder bei einer Pflanze, wo es an der Peripherie einfach nicht weiterwächst, sondern es muß eine neue Wurzel geschichtlicher Ereignisse beginnen. Wir leben im eminentesten Sinne seit Jahrzehnten schon in einer Zeit, in der solche neuen geschichtlichen Ereignisse aus unmittelbaren Intuitionen heraus beginnen müssen (rechte Hälfte der Zeichnung). Nur ist es im geschichtlichen Leben der Menschen so, daß auch über diese Dinge leicht Illusionen sich ausbreiten. Sie können ja eine Pflanze, die durch ihr inneres Gesetz bis zu einer gewissen Peripherie wächst, naturgemäß wachsend ansehen nur bis zu dieser Peripherie. Jetzt aber könnten Sie eine Illusion hervorrufen: Sie könnten Drähte anbringen, Papierblätter an die Drähte anhängen und könnten sich der Illusion hingeben, daß dann die Pflanze bis dahin gehe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/179/1917-12-15/p028"},{"locus":"GA 179/1917-12-15/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"![179-11](images/179-11.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/179/1917-12-15/p029"}],"english":["GA 179/1917-12-15/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":273,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4892,"original_word_count":4728,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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