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Let us look at very important characteristic in the development of the consciousness soul.","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":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/188/1919-01-03/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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Die Menschheit ist in ihrer Entwickelungsströmung an dem Punkt angekommen, den wir oftmals dadurch charakterisieren, daß wir sagen: Seit dem 15. Jahrhundert ist die Menschheit im Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele. Und diese Entwickelung der Bewußtseinsseele findet so statt, wie ich es eben öfter charakterisiert habe. 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