{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These are the fundamental ideas which must inspire thought and feeling to-day for anyone who is in earnest and sincere about working for a reconstruction of our civilisation. One cannot to-day shut oneself up in one's study and ponder over which is the best programme for the coming times. One has got to-day to go out into the world and search out the impulses already existing there. As I said, if one looks at our civilisation and at all that is hurrying it to its fall, one cannot avoid an impression that it is impossible to save it. And it cannot be saved unless people come to see that one thing is to he found amongst one people, and the second amongst another, the third amongst a third,—unless people all over the earth come together and set to work on big lines to give practical recognition to what none of them, singly, can of himself achieve, in the absolute sense, but which must be achieved by that one who is marked out, so to speak, by destiny for that particular work. If the American to-day, besides a cosmogony, wants also to evolve freedom and socialism, he cannot do it. If to-day the European, besides founding the impulse for freedom, wants to supply cosmogony and altruism, he cannot do it. No more can the Asiatic realise anything save his long- engrained altruism. Let this altruism be once taken over by the other groups of the earth's inhabitants, and saturated with that for which each has a special talent, then, and then only, we shall really get on.","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":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p021","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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Ich habe gesagt: Sieht man unsere Kultur an mit ihren Niedergangsmomenten, so muß man den Eindruck bekommen, sie kann nicht gerettet werden, wenn die Menschen nicht einsehen: Das eine ist bei dem, das zweite bei jenem, das dritte bei dem dritten vorhanden, wenn die Menschen nicht im großen Stile über die Erde hinweg zum Zusammenarbeiten kommen und zum wirklichen Anerkennen desjenigen, was der einzelne nicht im absoluten Sinne aus sich heraus leisten kann, sondern was nur geleistet werden kann von demjenigen, der, wenn ich so sagen darf, dazu prädestiniert ist. -— Will heute der Amerikaner außer der Kosmogonie auch noch die Freiheit und den Sozialismus aus sich selbst heraus gestalten: er kann es nicht. Will heute der Europäer zu der Begründung des Impulses der Freiheit auch noch die Kosmogonie finden und den Altruismus: er kann es nicht. Ebensowenig kann der Asiate etwas anderes als seinen alteingelebten Altruismus geltend machen. Wird dieser Altruismus von den anderen Bevölkerungsmassen der Erde übernommen und durchdrungen mit dem, wozu diese wiederum ihre Talente haben, dann erst kommen wir wirklich vorwärts. 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