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They sank deeper and deeper into the corporeality, and did not activate themselves from within to quicken the comprehension for what is derived from the super-sensible world. This has been the growing trend among the people of the so-called civilized world since the middle of the fifteenth century. And by the middle of the nineteenth century, just that particular segment of humanity which is called intellectual in the civilized parts of Europe and America had turned into physical thinkers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Party Programs and Spiritual Beings: Beyond Abstract Ideology","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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Jahrhunderts, ist die Menschheit immer mehr dazu gekommen, ich möchte sagen, in sich selbst zusammenzusinken, das Geistig-Seelische einschlafen zu lassen und sich hineinsinken zu lassen in die Materialität des Körperlichen und nur zu denken mit dem physischen Gehirn, dieses physische Gehirn automatisch ablaufen zu lassen nach dem, was der Professor, wenn er da oben sitzt auf dem Katheder, in seinem eigenen Gehirn ebenso automatisch ablaufen läßt. Da oben der Gehirnautomat — da unten der Gehirnautomat folgt dem Automaten. Und ganze Gruppierungen von Menschen gehen über zu einem bloßen materiellen Funktionieren des Gehirnes, was ja das physische Denken ist, sinken in die Körperlichkeit hinein, geben sich nicht den Ruck von innen heraus, um dasjenige zu erfassen, was aus der übersinnlichen Welt gewonnen ist. So ist es immer mehr und mehr mit den Menschen der sogenannten zivilisierten Welt seit der Mitte des i5. Jahrhunderts geworden. Und in der Mitte des 19. 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