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But take in real earnest the picture you must make for yourselves, and you will have to say: We have certainly entered the age of human evolution in which one meets with the least understanding when speaking of the spiritual knowledge most suited to this particular age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"Christ's Intervention: Preventing Ahrimanic Knowledge Premature Flooding","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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Bilden Sie daraus nicht eine tantenhafte Kritik, sondern eine Aufforderung zu wirklichem Tun, aber nehmen Sie doch die Sache, wie sie liegt. Würde man heute zu den ganz gescheiten Menschen der Gegenwart sprechen von solchen Dingen, wie wir eben gesprochen haben, denken Sie sich, man setzte sich mit jemandem von den auf irgendeinem Gebiete ganz gescheiten führenden Menschen der Gegenwart zusammen und erzählte eine solche Sache: Malen Sie sich nur aus, was der sich für ein Urteil heute bildet! Aber nehmen Sie das, was Sie sich da ausmalen müssen, ja im rechten Ernste, dann werden Sie sich sagen müssen: Wir sind allerdings in das Zeitalter der Menschheitsentwickelung eingetreten, in dem man am wenigsten verstanden wird, wenn man von der geistigen Wissenschaft spricht, welche gerade diesem Zeitalter am allerangemessensten ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p033"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-10-11/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":140,"en_words":139,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6209,"original_word_count":6364,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"Three Streams in Human Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/RSP1985/19181011p02.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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