{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p023-p025","extent":"range","passage_number":23,"through":25,"paragraph_count":3,"first_locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p023","last_locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"6. The Innate Capacities of the Nations of the World","date":"1918-12-08","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Olin D. Wannamaker","identified_edition":"AP1941","book_title":"The Challenge of the Times","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/AP1941/19181208p01.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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I have often brought to your attention the fact that the English-speaking peoples possess the real germinal potentiality for the development of the consciousness soul. It is important that we should see this clearly. This is connected with everything that happens to the world, if we may so express the matter, under the influence of the English-speaking peoples. The English people—I am by no means speaking of individual persons, but of the people—are endowed with all the impelling forces that lead to the consciousness soul. The condition is such that the trend toward the consciousness soul appears instinctively in them in a manner entirely different from that characterizing the rest of humanity. This spiritualized instinct to develop the consciousness soul exists nowhere else in the world as it does among the English people. There it is an instinct, and nowhere else is that so, even among the people of Roman descent who are united with the English-speaking peoples. The people of Roman descent constitute really successors to what actually lived in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. At that time this Roman people had the instinct for what developed in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch in special degree. Their instincts are no longer elemental in the same way. They have been rationalized, intellectualized and they appear in rhetoric, through the intellect, through the psychic life as a decorative form. They have been removed from the instinctive life. What appears among the Latin people as a folk temperament is altogether different from what appears as a folk temperament among the English people. Among the English people this trend toward the consciousness soul, this striving of the individual person to stand upon his own feet, is an instinct.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-08/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-12-08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":281,"en_words":309,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Olin D. Wannamaker","identified_edition":"AP1941","book_title":"The Challenge of the Times","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/AP1941/19181208p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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If, however, you study the folk character of the English-speaking populations psychologically, you will see that these impulses, the economic and the spiritually productive, are wholly overshadowed by what rises from the instinctive impulse that tends toward the development of the consciousness soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-08/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-12-08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":138,"en_words":142,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The three spheres must in the future show themselves especially effective in special ways, and they must be decisive. First, politics, which must provide security. Second, the organization of work, purely material work, the economic order. Third is the system of spiritual production, to which I attribute also, as I said to you, jurisprudence and the administration of justice. These three spheres of the social structure are, as a matter of course, overshadowed by what constitutes the primary impulse in the case of any differentiated peoples. The fact that a development toward the consciousness soul works instinctively among the English-speaking people brings it to pass that among them—as history teaches in profusion—politics, one branch, take on the most conspicuous form, and the dominant position. Politics are dominated wholly by the instinctive impulse to set men on their own feet, and to develop the consciousness soul fully. The instinctive impulse drives in such a direction—and this is a mere description I am giving, and no criticism. It drives toward the result because it is instinctive and instincts are always rooted in self-seeking. Among the English-speaking peoples self-seeking and political goals simply coincide. It leads to the fact that all politics performed in an utterly naive fashion—and this does not justify attaching any blame to a politician of the English-speaking peoples—can be used by the self-seeking person to fulfill thereby the mission of the English-speaking people. It is only in this way that you will succeed in understanding the real nature of English politics, which are actually the dominant politics of the entire population of the earth. If you observe the matter, you will find that English politics are considered everywhere as ideal—the parliamentary system with its shuffling of majorities and minorities, etc. If you examine the conditions in the various parliaments as these have developed, you will see that British politics have been determinative in the political life. But, as these politics have spread in various places among differently constituted peoples, they could no longer remain the same because they are rooted, and rightly, in the self-seeking and egoism that inevitably clings to everything of an instinctive nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":380,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-08/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-12-08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":351,"en_words":380,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Das ist wichtig, daß man das ins Auge faßt. Damit hängt ja alles das zusammen, was, wenn man so sagen darf, aus der Welt unter dem Einflusse der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung wird. Mit all den Impulsen, die gerade zur Herbeiführung der Bewußtseinsseele führen, ist das Volkstum - ich rede niemals vom einzelnen Menschen, sondern vom Volkstum — der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung ausgestattet. Das ist nun so, daß dort in ganz anderer Weise als bei der anderen Menschheit diese Hinneigung zur Bewußtseinsseele instinktiv auftritt. Es lebt nirgends in der Welt dieser, ich möchte sagen, vergeistigte Instinkt, die Bewußtseinsseele auszubilden, so, wie im englischen Volkstum. Da ist es Instinkt. Und nirgends sonst ist die Sache Instinkt, selbst nicht in dem der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung eingegliederten Romanentum. Das Romanentum ist eigentlich Nachkömmling desjenigen, was wirklich gelebt hat in der vierten nachatlantischen Zeit. Damals hatte dieses Romanentum die Instinkte für das, was in der vierten nachatlantischen Zeit besonders entwickelt worden ist. Jetzt sind seine Instinkte nicht mehr in derselben Weise elementar, sondern sie sind rationalisiert, intellektualisiert; sie treten auf als Rhetorik, durch den Intellekt, durch das Seelische, als dekorative Form. Sie sind herausgehoben aus dem Instinktiven. Dasjenige, was als, ich möchte sagen Volkstemperament im Romanentum auftritt, ist durchaus verschieden von dem, was als Volkstemperament beim englischen Volkstum auftritt. Beim englischen Volkstum ist dieses Hintendieren zur Bewußtseinsseele, dieses Streben des einzelnen Menschen, sich auf die eigenen Füße zu stellen, Instinkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p018"},{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Das also, was die Aufgabe des fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraums ist, das ist als Instinkt, als aus der ganzen Seele instinktiv kommender Impuls gerade in diesem Volkstum verankert. Sehen Sie, damit hängt zusammen die ganze Stellung dieses Volkstums in der Welt. Damit hängt zusammen, daf3 dieser Impuls innerhalb der sozialen Struktur der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung das Maßgebende, das Ausschlaggebende ist, daß er die anderen Tendenzen unterdrücken kann. Die anderen Tendenzen sind, wie Sie aus meinen Ausführungen ersehen können, schon nach der Gliederung, die ich der sozialen Frage gegeben habe: der ökonomische Impuls und der Impuls der geistigen Produktion. Aber studieren Sie nur einmal psychologisch das Volkstum der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung: Die beiden andern, der ökonomische Impuls und der geistig produktive Impuls, die stehen ganz im Schatten desjenigen, was aus dem instinktiven Impuls kommt, der zur Ausbildung der Bewußtseinsseele hintendiert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p019"},{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Dadurch bekommen die Zweige, welche das soziale Leben der Zukunft gestalten müssen, gerade innerhalb des englisch sprechenden Volkstums ihre ganz besondere Färbung. Die drei Gebiete müssen sich in der Zukunft ganz besonders wirksam erweisen, müssen tonangebend sein: Erstens die Politik, die die Sicherheit versorgt. Zweitens die Organisation der Arbeit, der rein materiellen Arbeit, also die ökonomische Ordnung, das Wirtschaftssystem. Das ist das zweite. Das dritte ist das System der geistigen Produktion, zu dem ich, wie ich Ihnen damals gesagt habe, auch die Jurisprudenz, die Gerichtsbarkeit rechne. Diese drei Gliederungen der sozialen Struktur, die werden selbstverständlich in den Schatten gestellt von dem, was als Hauptimpuls bei irgendeiner Volksdifferenzierung vorhanden ist. Dadurch, daß bei dem britisch sprechenden Volkstum instinktiv die Entwickelung zur Bewußtseinsseele wirkt, das Sich-Stellen auf die eigenen Beine, dadurch nimmt bei ihm, wie ja die Geschichte so sattsam lehrt, gerade die Politik den hervorragendsten Platz ein. Diese Politik ist ganz beherrscht von dem instinktiven Trieb, den Menschen auf die eigenen Beine zu stellen, die Bewußtseinsseele voll auszubilden. Dieser Trieb, weil er instinktiv ist, und Instinkte immer in der Selbstsucht wurzeln — das ist eine bloße Charakteristik, keine Kritik -, treibt dahin, daß innerhalb des englisch sprechenden Volkstums Selbstsucht und politisches Ziel rein zusammenfallen; daß alle Politik in ganz naiver Weise, ohne daß dabei irgendeinem Politiker der englisch sprechenden Bevölkerung eine Schuld gegeben werden darf, in den Dienst der Selbstsucht gestellt werden kann und gerade dadurch die Mission des englisch sprechenden Volkstums erfüllt. Nur dadurch kommen Sie darauf, das eigentliche Wesen der ja für die ganze Erdenbevölkerung eigentlich tonangebenden englischen Politik ins Auge zu fassen. Denn überall wird die englische Politik als ein Ideal betrachtet, die Parlamentsordnung mit dem Schaukeln von Mehrheit und Minderheit und so weiter. Studieren Sie einmal die Verhältnisse in den verschiedenen Parlamenten, wie sie sich herausgebildet haben, Sie werden überall sehen, daß die britische Politik tonangebend war gerade für das politische Leben. Aber indem sie sich über die anders differenzierten Völker ausgebreitet hat, konnte sie nicht mehr dasselbe sein, weil sie verankert ist und richtig verankert ist in der Selbstsucht, in dem Egoismus, der allem Instinktiven notwendigerweise anhaftet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[23],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[19],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[20],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}