{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-08/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is likewise the reason why the British people are endowed instinctively from the start for politics, whereas the Germans are a non-political people and not in the least endowed for politics. When they undertake, therefore, to pursue a political course, they run a great risk, which will become especially clear to you if you give particular attention to the fact that the Germans have taken over the task of introducing the second element into the world within the intellectual sphere. The British folk character is power. The German folk character is the appearing, the seeming, if you will, the shaping of thoughts, that which is not in a certain sense of the solid earth. In the British folk character all is of the solid earth, but just trace the intellectuality of the Germans. You may compare it with that of the Greeks, except that the Greeks gave form to the seething in accordance with its picture nature whereas the Germans have given form to the seeming especially in relation to its intellectualizing nature. In the last analysis, there is nothing more beautiful than what has been formed through Goetheanism, through Novalis, through Schelling, through all those spirits who are truly artists in thought. This makes the Germans a non-political people. If they are expected to be political, they are not equal to a person who thinks politically through his instincts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. The Innate Capacities of the Nations of the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-08","location":null,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-08/p037","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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Im Deutschtum handelt es sich um etwas, was nicht erdfest ist, sondern was dialektisch ausgebildet wird. Verfolgen Sie einmal die Intellektualität der Deutschen, Sie können sie vergleichen mit dem Griechentum, nur haben die Griechen mit Bezug auf die Bildnatur den Schein ausgestaltet; die Deutschen haben den Schein besonders mit Bezug auf die Intellektualisierungsnatur ausgestaltet. Es gibt schließlich nichts Schöneres als dasjenige, was ausgestaltet ist durch den Goetheanismus, durch Novalis, durch Schelling, durch alle diese Geister, die eigentlich Künstler sind in Gedanken. Das macht die Deutschen zu einem unpolitischen Volk. Sie sind, wenn sie politisch sein sollen, einem instinktiv politisch denkenden Menschen nicht gewachsen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-08/p031"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-08/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":231,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9943,"original_word_count":9249,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Olin D. 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