{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-03-21/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I will give you just one nice little example. In 1866, at the time of the Prussian victory over Austria, it was said that this was a proof of the superiority of Prussian schools. It gave rise to the saying: “It was the Prussian schoolmasters who won the 1866 victory.”[^1] This has been constantly repeated, and it would be interesting to count the times, between 1870 and 1914, that it was said by the qualified and unqualified—mostly the unqualified: “The Prussian victory was won by the schoolmasters.”—I imagine that people today will no longer be so ready to speak anywhere in such a fashion, any more than the truth of this other assertion will be insisted upon in the light of present events. But in this intellectual age, when people are so clever, they are not willing to notice the contradictions to be found in life. Facts play very little part in the intellectual life, but they must do so if the intellect is to be permeated with fresh spiritual content. Then, indeed, it will be manifest that a paralysing process, a decadent process, is appearing in men, which must be overcome by new spiritual knowledge. In the past: men must be said to have sensed, experienced, something of a healing nature in the knowledge surging up from the physical body. In future they will have to learn to see in the development of intellect the cause of disease, and to look to the spirit for healing. The source of healing must indeed be found again in science. This necessity, however, will arise from an opposite direction, when it can be seen how external life, even when proficient in knowledge, makes for sickness in men and must be counteracted by the healing principle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Knowledge as a Source of Healing II","site_heading":"Active Intelligence as Healing Force for Civilization","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1920-03-21","location":null,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/198/1920-03-21/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. 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Und es würde interessant sein, zusammenzuziehen, wie oft von 1870 ab bis 1914 von allen möglichen berufenen, aber namentlich unberufenen Leuten der Satz wiederholt worden ist: Die preußischen Siege hat der preußische Schulmeister errungen. — Ich glaube, man wird jetzt nicht irgendwie ein ähnlich geartetes Sprichwort an die Stelle setzen, und die Wahrheit des anderen will sich jetzt nicht mehr so recht behaupten lassen gegenüber den Ereignissen, die nunmehr eingetreten sind. Aber im Zeitalter des Intellektes, wo man ganz gescheit ist, da merkt man nicht gerne die Widersprüche, die sich im Leben zeigen. Die Tatsachen spielen ja in ein intellektuelles Leben wenig herein; aber diese Tatsachen, sie werden mässen hereinspielen, wenn das rein Intellektuelle wiederum durchtränkt wird mit geistigem Inhalt. Dann aber wird sich eben zeigen, wie in die Menschheit hereinkommt gerade ein Ablähmungs-, ein Dekadenzprozeß und wie der durch eine neue geistige Erkenntnis überwunden werden muß. Man kann sagen: Die Alten haben gespürt, empfunden in ihrer Erkenntnis, die aus dem physischen Leibe aufkochte, das Heilende. In Zukunft wird die Menschheit sich gewöhnen müssen, in der Ausbildung des Intellektes das Kränkende, das Krankmachende zu erkennen, um die Notwendigkeit zu empfinden, aus dem Geiste herauszuholen das Heilende. Wieder muß werden die Wissenschaft ein Quell des Heilens. Aber aus einer entgegengesetzten Ecke wird die Nötigung kommen, aus der Ecke, die zeigt, daß das äußere Leben, gerade wenn es in der Erkenntnis vorschreitet, ein die Menschheit krankmachendes ist, dem eben das Heilprinzip entgegengestellt werden muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/198/1920-03-21/p021"}],"english":["GA 198/1920-03-21/p020","GA 198/1920-03-21/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":293,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5086,"original_word_count":5516,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Violet E. 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