{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 194/1919-12-14/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now we can ask: Since the German people will be excluded from sharing the things by means of which the *external world* will be ruled in the future, what really happens in that case? The responsibility—not that of the individual, naturally—the people's responsibility for events concerning the whole of human society ceases. Not that of the individual, but the people's responsibility ceases among those who are down-trodden—for they are that. The responsibility ends, and it becomes all the greater on the other side; that is where the actual responsibility will rest. The outer dominion will be easily won; it is won by means of forces for which the victors can take no credit. The external passing over of the external dominion is accomplished as the final natural necessity; *but the responsibility will be something of deep significance for souls*. For the question is already written down in humanity's book of destiny: Will there be found among those upon whom the external dominion devolves as by an external necessity, a sufficiently great number of people who feel the responsibility, so that into this external, materialistic dominion, into this culmination of materialistic dominion, may be transplanted the *impulses of the spiritual life?* And that must not happen too slowly! The middle of this century will be a very significant point of time. The whole weight of the responsibility should be *felt*, if one is chosen, as it were by outer natural destiny, to enter upon the dominion of materialism in the external world,—for that is what it will be. For this dominion of materialism bears within it at the same time the seed of destruction. The destruction which has begun will not cease; and “entering upon external dominion” means taking over the forces of destruction, the forces of human illness, and living in them. That which will bear humanity into the *future* will come forth from the *new seed of the spirit*, and will have to be fostered. Therefore, the responsibility rests directly upon that side to which falls world-dominion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Historical Occurrences of the Last Century","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-12-14","location":null,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-12-14/p040","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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