{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 181/1918-05-21/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is happening today—I will only mention one thing—is the lessening importance of the outer British *Empire*, as such. What the world has up till now really known historically as Britain itself and which was specifically British, is now merging into Pan-Anglo-Americanism. That such a thing actually forms part of the developments which we have already indicated in different ways, does not contradict these developments. On the other hand it is of tremendous importance to grasp such a significant thought, for much depends on whether we take correct or false forces into our life of idea. The times can teach us much in this respect; that must be pointed out again and again. Certainly, the men at the fronts have become different. Everyone who is familiar with the facts is aware of that. This is not the place to discuss in what way they have changed. But among those who have lived at the front there are still many who think just as they did in July 1914, who have learned nothing since, who use exactly the same concepts as were used to then. When you talk with the men, they just say the same things as they might have said in July 1914. Yet no man today can be really awake if all his ideas have not acquired a different impression, a different value. For this reason the question will have to be put—everyone should put it to himself, as a quite serious and I might say Christian question of conscience: Where are the men to be found today who, before July 1914, held the possibility in view that that might happen which has come to pass up to the present day? I might formulate the question differently. In the cycle of lectures which I held before the war in Vienna, there is among other things an expression which runs thusly: The human social life bears something within it which can be compared to a cancer; a cancerous disease is in the life of humanity. That had to be realized at that time; but there are many people who have not yet realized it at the present time. I ask: In how profound a sense has it been understood that a “cancer” in human development was spoken of just at that time?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Whitsuntide Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-21","location":null,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/181/1918-05-21/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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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Aber auf der andern Seite ist es von einer ungeheuren Wichtigkeit, einen solchen tragenden Gedanken wirklich ins Auge zu fassen, denn es hängt etwas davon ab, ob man in sein Vorstellungsleben hinein richtige oder falsche Kräfte nimmt. Die Zeit kann uns in dieser Beziehung viel lehren, darauf muß man immer wieder und wieder hinweisen. Gewiß, die Menschen an den Fronten sind andere geworden. Das weiß jeder, der mit den Tatsachen bekannt ist. In welcher Weise sie sich umgewandelt haben, das zu erörtern, ist hier nicht der Ort. Aber unter denen, die innerhalb der Fronten gelebt haben, sind diejenigen doch noch außerordentlich zahlreich, die so denken wie im Juli 1914, die seitdem nichts gelernt haben, die genau dieselben Begriffe anwenden, die man im Juli 1914 angewendet hat. Wenn man mit den Menschen spricht, ist es so, daß sie einem dasselbe sagen, was sie auch im Juli 1914 hätten sagen können. Aber eigentlich kann der kein wacher Mensch heute sein, für den nicht jeder Begriff eine andere Prägung, eine andere Wertigkeit bekommen hat. Und aus diesem Grunde wird die Frage gestellt werden müssen — aber diese Frage sollte sich jeder als eine ganz ernste und, ich möchte sagen, christliche Gewissensfrage stellen -: Wo sind die Menschen heute zu finden, die vor dem Juli 1914 die Möglichkeit sich so recht vor Augen geführt haben, daß das kommen könnte, was nun bis zum heutigen Tage gekommen ist? Ich könnte - und Sie wissen, ich sage es nicht aus Albernheit - die Frage auch anders formulieren. In dem Vortragszyklus, den ich vor dem Kriege in Wien gehalten habe, findet sich neben anderem ein Ausdruck, der da lautet: Das gesellschaftliche menschliche Leben trägt jetzt etwas in sich, was man mit einem Karzinom vergleichen kann, was eine Krebskrankheit ist im Leben der Menschheit. Das mußte man damals ins Auge fassen. Aber viele Menschen sind es, die das bis heute noch nicht ins Auge gefaßt haben. 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