{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this is the reason why to-day there is so much talk about things which are peculiar to the civilisation that is dying, but which people talk about as though they stood for something that could be effective as an ideal. For years, we have had it proclaimed that “Every nation must have the possibility of ...” well, I don't quite know of what, living its own life in its own way, or something of that sort. Now, I ask you: For the man of to-day, if he is frank and honest about it, what is a “nation”?—Practically just a form of words, certainly nothing real. If one talks about the Spirit of a Nation, in the sense in which we speak of it in Anthroposophy, then one can talk about a Nation, for then there is a reality at the back of it; but not when it merely signifies an abstraction. And it is an abstraction that people have in mind today when they talk of the “freedom” of nationalities, and so forth. For they certainly don't believe in the reality of any sort of national Being. And herein lies the profound inward falsity to which men to-day do homage. They don't believe in the reality of the national Being, yet they talk of the “Freedom of the Nation,” as if to the materialist man of our day, the “nation” meant anything at all. What is the German nation? Just ninety millions of persons, who can be added together and summed up, A plus A plus A. That is not a National Being—a self-contained entity—for men to believe in. And it is just the same with the other nations. Yet people talk about these things and believe that they are talking about realities, and all the while are lying to themselves in the depths of their souls.","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":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p032","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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Man kann von einem Volk sprechen, wenn man von einem Volksgeist spricht in dem Sinne, wie das in der Anthroposophie geschieht, wenn eine Realität dahintersteckt, aber nicht, wenn man ein Abstraktum meint. Und ein Abstraktum meinen heute die Menschen, die von der Freiheit der Volkstümer und so weiter sprechen, denn sie glauben ja nicht an die Realität irgendeines Volkswesens. Darinnen liegt die tiefe innerliche Unwahrheit, der man heute huldigt, daß man nicht glaubt an die Realität des Volkswesens, aber von der Freiheit des Volkes redet, als ob das Volk für den heutigen materialistischen Menschen etwas wäre. Was ist das deutsche Volk? Neunzig Millionen Menschen, die man A plus A plus A zusammenzählen kann! Das ist kein in sich geschlossenes Volkswesen, an das die Menschen glauben. Und so mit den anderen Völkern. 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