{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 188/1919-01-03/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"By reason of this, man learns however to make his whole perception of the world fruitful. He learns to make fruitful just what in reality has always distinguished him from the animal. Strictly speaking man is thoroughly unobservant about his own faculties, and he will become so increasingly if he develops only intellectuality in the age of the consciousness soul. If we go back to earlier ages we frequently find among talented men that they still had a certain sense also for their surroundings. If we take the conceptions that these men of old formed about certain animals, for example, these are often full of good sense. The conceptions in modern books on Zoology from the standpoint of abstractions are often quite honest and worthy of recognition, but full of sense, my dear friends, they certainly are not. I should like to ask you, in the first place, whether among the conceptions given out today in schools there are really any capable of leading you into the actual life of the animals? Moreover do not men today notice the timid gaze with which whole herds, whole groups of animals look out into the world—the timid, intimidated gaze? O, we shall learn to see it again when through our faculty of abstraction we have been driven to the Guardian of the Threshold, and are able once more to have sympathy with the animal—not the sympathy often produced artificially but a sympathy corresponding to to an elementary inner experience. It can be said that a peculiar intimidation, as it were, a timid outlook upon the world, is widespread among all the higher animals, all the warm-blooded animals. I was walking once with a university man and at a certain place on our way we saw deer, stags, scampering away from anything and everything. This man said to me: “Something must be the reason for this; formerly men must have tormented animals, shooting them and so on, so that the animal souls have become accustomed to fear men.” But there are other things besides men that animals fear.","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":345,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/188/1919-01-03/p031","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 Vorstellungen der heutigen Zoologiebücher sind manchmal vom Standpunkte der Abstraktionsbildung aus ja ganz brav und recht anerkennenswert, aber sinnreich sind sie nicht. Vor allen Dingen möchte ich Sie einmal fragen, ob unter den Vorstellungen, die Sie heute in der Schule aufnehmen, wirklich solche sind, die Sie sinnvoll hereinführen können, sagen wir in das Leben der Tiere? Sehen denn heute die Menschen noch, hinschauend über eine große Anzahl von Tieren, den ängstlichen Blick, mit dem ganze Scharen, ganze Gruppen von Tieren in die Welt schauen, den furchtsamen, ängstlichen Blick? Oh, wir werden ihn wieder sehen lernen, wenn wir durch das Abstraktionsvermögen nur so weit gekommen sind, daß es uns zum Hüter der Schwelle getrieben hat, daß wir wiederum Mitgefühl entwickeln können mit dem Tiere! Nicht jenes Mitgefühl, das heute oftmals künstlich anerzogen wird, sondern das einem elementaren inneren Erleben entspricht. Man kann sagen: Über die gesamten höheren Tiere, die gesamten warmblütigen Tiere, breitet sich aus ein eigentümliches Ängstlichsein, ein ängstliches Hineinschauen in die Welt. Ich ging einmal mit einem Manne, der akademisch gebildet war, und wir sahen von einem gewissen Punkte des Weges aus Rehe, Hirsche, die vor allem möglichen davonliefen. Da sagte dieser Mann zu mir: Da muß doch dem irgendwie zugrunde liegen, daß in alten Zeiten die Menschen die Tiere gequält haben, geschossen haben oder dergleichen, und dadurch haben sich die Tierseelen gewöhnt, sich vor dem Menschen zu fürchten. — Aber die Tiere fürchten sich ja auch vor anderem, nicht bloß vor dem Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/188/1919-01-03/p032"}],"english":["GA 188/1919-01-03/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":348,"en_words":345,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 188/1919-01-03/p032"]},"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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