{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-12/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"From the socialist side, it is always being pointed out that the whole course of human history is, in actual reality, to be traced in economic processes alone,—in the processes of industrial life, in the class-warfare that has resulted from the processes of economic life. And on the foundation of this economic matter-of-fact world, as a sort of superstructure upon it, are supposed to have grown up all those developments that we see in the way of Law, Moral Conventions, and especially spiritual life, including, of course, Art, Religion, Science, etc. As applied to the whole course of human history that is, of course, nonsense. One cannot but ask oneself: What has led to this nonsensical idea? What has led to such a nonsensical idea is that, as a matter of fact, and in respect of this particular last phase of human evolution in our own modern times, the thing has a basis of truth in it. Amongst the events which ushered in this modern age we have to note those changes in our earthly evolution that I mentioned yesterday, which were brought about by the discovery of America, by the discovery of the sea-route to the East Indies. But, besides this, the latest phase of mankind's evolution must be marked by us as that of the great spiritual upheaval which was accomplished at the beginning of the modern age, and which we call The Reformation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Für den ganzen Verlauf der menschlichen Geschichte ist das natürlich ein Unsinn, allein man muß sich fragen: Wodurch ist es zu diesem Unsinn gekommen? — Es ist dadurch zu diesem Unsinn gekommen, daß in der Tat für die gekennzeichnete letzte Phase der menschlichen Entwickelung, für unsere neueste Zeit, der Sache etwas Wahres zugrunde liegt. Wir verzeichnen unter den Ereignissen, welche diese neuere Zeit eingeleitet haben, die schon gestern genannten Umwälzungen in der Erdenentwickelung, die eingetreten sind durch die Entdeckung Amerikas, durch die Entdeckung des Seeweges nach Ostindien. Aber wir bezeichnen diese neueste Phase der menschlichen Entwickelung auch dadurch, daß wir auf den großen geistigen Umschwung hinweisen, der sich im Beginne der neueren Zeit vollzogen hat und den wir die Reformation nennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-12/p004"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-10-12/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":236,"ratio":1.18,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.17,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8353,"original_word_count":7159,"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/LA1963/19191012p01.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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