{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-01-17/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is no longer acceptable to continue sleeping when we know the depths of the swamp we are in. It could easily be, if these things were not talked about openly, that there would still be people in our ranks who would say, for example: Shouldn't we rather write to all the fine gentlemen who forge letters and then use the forged letters to fabricate newspaper articles in order to change their minds? Today it is really a matter of opening our eyes and seeing what kind of people are walking around among us, people whom we would soil ourselves if we got seriously involved with them. These things must not be overlooked; this must be said again and again. The connections must be pointed out. Do you think that it can be with impunity that, for example, in those Jesuit publications, in which the false statements that I have already mentioned to you are printed, the story has been circulated for years that I am a runaway priest, and then simply to take back such a thing with the words: This is something that one heard, “but which could not be substantiated”? Do you think that one has the right to say to such a Jesuit priest: You have taken back what you spread? No, one has to say to him: You have violated your duty in the most irresponsible way by spreading a thing unchecked, and your retraction means nothing at all. Today, morality must be taken seriously by those people who still understand something about morality. During the past five years, we have heard almost nothing but lies from all over the civilized world, and we are still living under the effects of the lie. It is necessary to face these things seriously.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fifth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiatory Science and Moral Renewal in Modern Society","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Es könnte ja leicht sein, wenn über diese Dinge nicht scharf gesprochen würde, daß sich auch in unseren Reihen noch Leute fänden, die zum Beispiel sagten: Soll man nicht doch lieber an all die schönen Herren, die da Briefe fälschen und hernach mit den gefälschten Briefen Zeitungsartikel fabrizieren, schreiben, um sie umzustimmen ? — Es handelt sich heute wirklich darum, die Augen aufzumachen und hinzusehen, was für Menschen unter uns herumgehen, Menschen, denen gegenüber man sich beschmutzen würde, wenn man sich im ernsthaften Sinne mit ihnen einlassen würde. Diese Dinge dürfen nicht einfach verschlafen werden, das muß immer wieder und wiederum gesagt werden. Es muß auf die Zusammenhänge hingewiesen werden. Glauben Sie, daß es ungestraft sein kann, daß zum Beispiel in jenen jesuitischen Blättern, in denen die erlogenen Angaben stehen, von denen ich Ihnen ja auch schon gesprochen habe, jahrelang die Mär herumgetragen worden ist, ich sei ein entlaufener Priester, um dann einfach eine solche Sache zurückzunehmen mit den Worten: Das ist etwas, was man gehört hat, «was sich aber nicht aufrechterhalten ließ» ? — Glauben Sie, daß man ein Recht hat, einem solchen Jesuitenpater zu sagen: Du hast das zurückgenommen, was du verbreitet hast ? - Nein, man hat ihm zu sagen: Du hast in der unverantwortlichsten Weise deine Pflicht verletzt, indem du ungeprüft eine Sache in die Welt gesetzt hast, und deine Zurücknahme bedeutet gar nichts. - Es muß heute mit Moral von jenen Menschen, die noch von Moral etwas verstehen, ernst gemacht werden. Wir haben, durch die ganze zivilisierte Welt gehend, in den letzten fünf Jahren fast nur Erlogenes vernommen, und wir leben noch immer unter den Nachwirkungen der Lüge. 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