{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-02-14/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In short, just as the physicist understands the complex phenomena of physical nature from the simple experiences he makes, so today one must understand from human nature with its higher abilities: memory, intelligence and sensory perceptions, its lower abilities: will, desire and feeling - that which has to happen in the development of humanity. And anyone who today, with social willpower drawn from a strong but empty self-confidence and with the tone that is called the chest tone of conviction in many people today, presents himself and develops social ideas is like someone who stands in front of a telegraph installation, has no idea about electricity and magnetism, these simple facts, and now, out of his lack of knowledge, explains a telegraph installation. The people who talk about sociology today usually talk from a spirit like that — no matter how learned it may sound to many people — like someone who has never heard of the nature of electricity and looks at a Morse code system in a telegraph station and says: “There are just tiny little riders in there, you can't see them, they ride to the other station, you just can't see any of that.” And he explains it all very neatly. This is how Marxism explains social facts, this is how our university sociologists explain social facts. Reality only emerges when one recognizes human nature. But human nature can only be recognized from within the whole cosmic order. Because memory is connected with the extraterrestrial, intelligence is connected with the extraterrestrial, sensory activity is connected with the extraterrestrial. Feeling is something that will only become what it is supposed to be after the earth no longer exists; desire and will in an even more distant future. Just as one must know the simple fact of the thermodynamics of the organism in order to be a physicist, the simple fact of acoustics, so too, in order to have a say today, and as many people as possible must have a say with regard to social facts, one must delve into the simple, elementary connections between the human being and the world, because that which is socially grounded is carried by the human being into the social order. But here, in his own being, man brings in the whole universe. That is why it is also bad for those chatterboxes who, from all sorts of old traditions, talk about man being a microcosm, a small world compared to the macrocosm, and who stick to these abstractions. Only he who knows that there were once ancestors of man as moon people who had fantastic imaginations has a real right to speak of macrocosm and microcosm. The moon has passed away, the earth has come into being. Human memory has arisen out of that which is no longer there, but which once was there. This has no earthly origin. Only the human ego and its expression, the present physical human body with its form, have an earthly origin. One must grasp this in concrete terms, otherwise one has no right to call it anything but a microcosm.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fourteenth Lecture","site_heading":"The Soul's Six Faculties and Future Evolution","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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Und derjenige, der sich heute mit aus dem starken, aber leeren Selbstbewußtsein herausgeholten sozialen Wollen und mit dem Tone, den man den Brustton der Überzeugung bei vielen Menschen heute nennt, hinstellt und soziale Ideen entwickelt, der gleicht einem Menschen, der sich hinstellt vor eine Telegraphenanlage, keinen Dunst hat von Elektrizität und Magnetismus, diesen einfachen Tatsachen, und nun aus seiner Nichtkenntnis heraus eine Telegraphenanlage erklärt. Die Menschen, die heute über Soziologie sprechen, die reden zumeist ungefähr aus einem solchen Geiste heraus — wenn es auch für viele Menschen noch so gelehrt klingt -, wie einer, der niemals etwas von dem Wesen der Elektrizität gehört hat und sich in einer Telegraphenstation eine Morseanlage ansieht und sagt: Da drinnen sind eben ganz kleine Reiterchen, die sieht man nicht, die reiten auf die andere Station, man sieht das nur alles nicht. - Und da erklärt er das alles ganz ordentlich. So erklärt der Marxismus die sozialen Tatsachen, so erklären unsere Universitätssoziologen die sozialen Tatsachen. Die Wirklichkeit ergibtsich erst, wenn man die Menschennatur erkennt. Aber die Menschennatur kann man nur erkennen aus der ganzen kosmischen Ordnung heraus. Denn Gedächtnis hängt zusammen mit Außerirdischem, Intelligenz hängt zusammen mit Außerirdischem, Sinnestätigkeit hängt zusammen mit Außerirdischem. Fühlen ist erst etwas, was, nachdem die Erde nicht mehr sein wird, das sein wird, was es werden soll; Begehren und Wollen ebenso in einer noch ferneren Zukunft. So wie man, um Physiker zu sein, die einfache Tatsache der Wärmelehre des Organismus, die einfache Tatsache der Akustik kennen muß, so muß man, um heute mitzureden, und es müssen möglichst viele Menschen mitreden mit Bezug auf soziale Tatsachen, muß man eingehen auf die einfachen elementaren Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Menschenwesen und der Welt, denn dasjenige, was sozial begründet wird, das trägt der Mensch in die soziale Ordnung. Der Mensch aber trägt hier in seiner eigenen Wesenheit das ganze Weltenall herein. Darum steht es auch schlimm um jene Schwätzer, welche aus allerlei alten Überlieferungen heraus davon reden, der Mensch istein Mikrokosmos, eine kleine Welt gegenüber dem Makrokosmos, und die bei diesen Abstraktionen bleiben. Ein wirkliches Recht, von Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos zu reden, hat erst der, der da weiß, es hat einstmals Vorfahren des Menschen als Mondenmenschen gegeben, die hatten traumhafte Imaginationen. Der Mond ist vergangen, die Erde ist geworden. Aus dem, was nicht mehr da ist, was aber einmal dagewesen ist, ist das menschliche Gedächtnis entstanden. Das hat keinen Erdenursprung. Erdenursprung hat nur das menschliche Ich und sein Ansdruck, der gegenwärtige physische menschliche Körper mit seiner Gestalt. Im Konkreten fassen muß man das, was man sonst kein Recht hat, bloß einen Mikrokosmos zu nennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":481,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/196/1920-02-14/p026"}],"english":["GA 196/1920-02-14/p026"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":481,"en_words":517,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5464,"original_word_count":5254,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SOL2024/19200214p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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