{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I want during the next few evenings to talk to you about various things in connection with our present civilisation, things which are necessary to right understanding and action in the world to-day. It is not very difficult—in view of the many facts that meet one almost at every turn—to perceive signs of decline within our civilisation, and that it contains forces that make for its downfall. Recognising these forces of decline and fall within our civilisation, we have then to seek out the quarters from which it may draw fresh sources of new strength. If we survey our present civilisation we shall see that there are present in it three main downward forces,—three forces which gradually and inevitably must bring about its overthrow. All the distressing phenomena which we have hitherto experienced in the course of man's evolution, and all those that we have still to go through,—for in many respects we are only just at the beginning,—are all only so many symptoms of a vast process going on in our age, which, taken as a whole, presents a phenomenon of decline and fall.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-10-10","location":null,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191010p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Es wird kaum schwierig sein, aus den Tatsachen, die ja gewissermaßen heute überall einem entgegenleuchten, sich die Erkenntnis zu verschaffen, daß unsere gegenwärtige Zivilisation Niedergangserscheinungen, Niedergangskräfte in sich enthält, und daß die Notwendigkeit vorhanden ist, gegenüber diesen Niedergangskräften unserer Zivilisation sich zu wenden zu dem, was nötig ist, an neuen Kräften dieser Zivilisation zuzuführen. Wenn wir diese unsere Zivilisation überblicken, dann sehen wir, daß sie hauptsächlich drei Niedergangskräfte in sich enthält, drei Kräfte, welche diese Zivilisation nach und nach zum Fall bringen müssen. Alles dasjenige, was wir schon erlebt haben an betrübenden Erscheinungen im Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung, was wir noch erleben werden - für viele Dinge stehen wir ja erst im Anfange -, das alles sind nur einzelne Symptome für dasjenige, was sich im großen ganzen vollzieht als eine Niedergangserscheinung in unserer Zeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-10/p003"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-10-10/p002","GA 191/1919-10-10/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":160,"en_words":195,"ratio":1.22,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 191/1919-10-10/p003"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.17,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7938,"original_word_count":6808,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191010p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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