{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Leaving Europe and going westwards—and I take Great Britain and America together in this connection,—passing, then, to the Anglo-American world, we find there again, one-third of the impulses, just one out of the three impulses necessary to the upraising of our civilisation, and that is, the impulse towards a cosmogony. Anyone acquainted with the spiritual life of the Anglo-American world knows that, formalistic as Anglo-American spiritual life is in the first instance, that, materialistic as it is in the first instance, and though, indeed, it even tries to get what is spiritual in a materialistic fashion, yet it has got in it the makings of a cosmogony. Although this cosmogony is to-day being sought along altogether erroneous paths, yet it lies in Anglo-American nature to seek for it. Again, a third, the search for a cosmogony. But there the possibility of bringing this cosmogony into connection with free altruistic man does not exist. There is the talent for treating this cosmogony as an ornamental appendage, for working it out and giving it shape; but no talent for incorporating the human being in this cosmogony as a member of it. Even the spiritualist movement, in its early beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, of which it still preserves some traces, had, one may say, something of a cosmogony about it, although it led into the wilderness. What they were trying to get at were the forces that lay behind the sense-forces; only they took a materialistic road, a materialistic method, to find them. But they were not endeavouring through these means to arrive at a science of the formalist kind that you get, for instance, among the Europeans; they were trying to become acquainted with the real actual super-sensual forces. Only, as I said, they took a wrong road, what is still known as the “American” way. So here, again, we have one-third of what will have to be there before our civilisation can really rise again.","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":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p019","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. 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Wenn auch diese Kosmogonie heute auf ganz falschen Wegen gesucht wird, sie wird gesucht im anglo-amerikanischen Wesen. Wiederum ein Drittel: das Suchen nach einer Kosmogonie. Es besteht nicht die Möglichkeit, diese Kosmogonie mit dem freien, altruistischen Menschen zu verbinden, wohl das Talent, dieser Kosmogonie anzuhängen, sie auszugestalten, aber kein Talent, den Menschen einzugliedern in diese Kosmogonie. Man kann sagen, daß sogar die Bestrebungen des in die Irre gehenden Spiritismus kosmogonisch waren, wie sie in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts begonnen haben und eigentlich heute noch immer nicht ganz abgeflutet sind. Es handelte sich da darum, darauf zu kommen, welche Kräfte hinter den sinnlichen Kräften sind; man schlug nur einen materialistischen Weg, eine materialistische Methode ein. Aber es handelte sich nicht darum, solche formalistischen Wissenschaften, wie sie zum Beispiel die Europäer haben, dadurch zu bekommen, sondern darum, wirkliche, reale übersinnliche Kräfte kennenzulernen. Man schlug nur, wie gesagt, einen falschen Weg ein, einen Weg, den man heute noch «amerikanisch» nennt. 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