{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 188/1919-01-03/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Among the misunderstandings arising in this way we may include the belief that Spiritual Science wishes to pronounce sentence, sentence of wholesale extermination, upon all the striving of the age, in so far as this striving proceeds from personalities outside the pale of Spiritual Science. Here too lies mere misunderstanding. Spiritual scientists who seriously and adequately pay heed to present world conditions are very ready to enter into the attitude of mind, the mood of soul, of their contemporaries, and will ask themselves the question: “What is going on in the souls of my seriously minded contemporaries in the direction where we have to look for the improvement of much that both deserves and needs to be improved?” What, however, must above all be borne in mind as a particularly striking fact at present is that just in the case of those who make the most earnest endeavours, there is often a refusal to enter upon concrete knowledge of the spiritual world, recognition of the spiritual world, which can appear to men as a reality and not merely as something to be disclosed through a sum of concepts. Today most men prefer to remain with their experiences altogether in the sense world, and at best they allow that a spiritual world can be disclosed by means of concepts and ideas. They do not want to set out on an investigation where there is any question of penetrating to the spiritual world in actual experience. This aversion to spiritual reality is a characteristic feature of our time; it it is a feature of our time to which attention must be paid particularly by those of us who try to take our stand on the ground of spiritual Science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Difference Between Man and Animal","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-01-03","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/188/1919-01-03/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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Gerade der Geisteswissenschafter, der ernst und würdig den heutigen Weltzustand ins Auge faßt, wird wohl eingehen auf die Gemütslage, auf die Seelenstimmung der Zeitgenossen und wird sich die Frage vorlegen: Was geht in den Seelen der ernsten Zeitgenossen der Gegenwart vor, in der Richtung, in der eine Besserung manches Verbesserungswürdigen oder Verbesserungsnotwendigen eben gesucht werden muß? — Was aber hier vor allen Dingen als eine besonders in der Gegenwart außerordentlich markante Tatsache ins Auge gefaßt werden muß, das ist, daß gerade abgelehnt wird, manchmal von den strebendsten Zeitgenossen abgelehnt wird das konkrete Eingehen auf das Wissen von der geistigen Welt, auf die Erkenntnis von der geistigen Welt, die als eine Wirklichkeit vor den Menschen treten kann und nicht bloß als etwas, was man durch eine Summe von Begriffen erschließt. Die meisten Menschen möchten eben heute mit ihren Erfahrungen nur in der Sinneswelt stehenbleiben und eine geistige Welt höchstens zugeben als durch Begriffe, durch Ideen erschließbar. Sie möchten sich nicht anschließen an eine Forschung, welche von Mitteln spricht, in die geistige Welt erlebnisgemäß wirklich einzudringen. Dieses Ablehnen der wirklichen Geistigkeit, das ist allerdings ein charakteristischer Zug unserer Zeit; das ist ein Zug unserer Zeit, den insbesondere wir, die wir versuchen, uns auf den Boden der Geisteswissenschaft zu stellen, berücksichtigen müssen. 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