{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When it is said today that the earth has so and so many hundred millions of inhabitants, this is not, actually entirely correct, for it can also be reckoned how many inhabitants the earth has according to how much work is done. Now we are perfectly justified in saying that since the last third of the eighteenth century man's power of labour has been fixed by the machines that have been increasingly produced. It can be reckoned, and reckoned pretty exactly, how many millions more men would have to be apportioned to the earth if all the work produced by machines were to be produced by men. The earth would have to have 500,000,000 more men. It can indeed be said that the earth today has not so many men if they are to be counted according to their two legs and their head, but according to labour power the earth has 500,000,000 more men; machines do duty as labour-power.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Soul Boundaries and Future Human Evolution","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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Und der Impuls, der da von den orientalischen Eingeweihten der Entwickelung gegeben werden will, der beruht im wesentlichen darauf, daß man nicht mehr rechnen will, so ungefähr nach der Hälfte der sechsten nachatlantischen Zeit, auf die menschliche Generation. Man möchte verzichten auf das irdische Menschengeschlecht nach dieser Zeit. Man möchte die Entwickelung der Menschheit dahin bringen, daß die Menschen nachher eigentlich nicht mehr so recht physische Nachkommen haben, daß die Seelen dann schon sich vergeistigen, nicht mehr auf die Erde herunterkommen in Verleiblichungen. Man möchte das Reich des Geistes für die Menschheit schon von der Mitte der sechsten nachatlantischen Zeit an begründen. Dies würde man nur können, wenn man gewisse Kulturingredienzien abweisen würde. Nicht nur die Eingeweihten des Orients, sondern eigentlich instinktiv jeder gebildete Orientale lehnt daher im eminentesten Sinne gewisse Europäismen ab; gerade diejenigen Europäismen, auf die der Europäer ganz besonders stolz ist, lehnt er ab. Er lehnt ab namentlich alles dasjenige, was sich ja aus der rein technischen, materiellen Kultur in Europa und seinem Anhange Amerika ergeben hat. Wer die Entwickelung der Menschheit studiert, namentlich im 19. Jahrhundert und in das 20. Jahrhundert herein, der wird finden, daß man mit Recht sagt: Die Technik hat es ungeheuer weit gebracht, die Technik hat den Menschen Arbeitskräfte abgenommen. Wenn man heute davon redet, die Erde habe so und so viel hundert Millionen Einwohner, so ist dieses eigentlich nicht ganz richtig, weil man auch rechnen kann, wieviel die Erde Einwohner hat nach dem, wieviel gearbeitet wird. Nun wird mit vollständigem Recht gesagt, daß seit dem letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts von den Maschinen, die nach und nach entstanden sind, menschliche Arbeitskraft verrichtet wird. Man kann berechnen, ziemlich exakt berechnen, wieviel Millionen Menschen mehr die Erde haben müßte, wenn alle die Arbeit, die von den Maschinen verrichtet wird, von den Menschen verrichtet würde. Die Erde müßte fünfhundert Millionen Menschen mehr haben. 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