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This is something extraordinarily deceptive, my dear friends, for in a certain way it is convincing for anyone who has schooled his thinking to the point of being able to grasp the whole bearing of such an assertion.","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":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/188/1919-01-03/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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Nun gibt es gerade eine kleine, nette Schrift von Wasmann über den Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Tier, welche scharf hervorhebt, was ich jetzt eben angedeutet habe: diese Fähigkeit der Menschen, wirklich in abstrakten Begriffen zu denken, die das Tier eben nicht haben soll. Das ist etwas, was außerordentlich blendend ist, weil es ja nach einer gewissen Richtung hin überzeugend ist für den, der sich nur in seinem Denken so weit geschult hat, daß er die ganze Tragkraft einer solchen Behauptung ins Auge fassen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/188/1919-01-03/p014"}],"english":["GA 188/1919-01-03/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":170,"en_words":172,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8259,"original_word_count":7890,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Violet E. 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