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It is important that these words should be permeated by that Force which derives directly from the spirit. He who finds a verbal similarity between the articles of the pastor or professor and what I have said here without feeling that my words spring from a spiritual source and are imbued with spiritual substance because they reflect the totality of the anthroposophical *Weltanschauung*, he who ignores this ‘how,’ fails to understand me if he does not distinguish between modern opinions that smack of Anthroposophy and Anthroposophy itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Supersensible Element in the Study of History","site_heading":"Death and Evil as Evolutionary Forces in Consciousness","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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Aber auf das Wortwörtliche kommt es nicht an, sondern darauf kommt es an, in welcher Region der Menschenseele die Dinge entspringen. Es kommt darauf an, durch die Sprache hindurchzusehen auf die Region, in der die Dinge entspringen. Alles, was hier gesagt wird, wird nicht bloß gesagt, um bestimmte Sätze zu formulieren, sondern auf das Wie kommt es an; darauf kommt es an, daß es durchströmt ist von jener Kraft, die unmittelbar aus dem Geiste heraus genommen ist. 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