{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-09-18/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A second stage in the life of the human being is puberty; in the male sex it is marked by the change of voice, in the female by changes in the body that spread over the whole organism, not focusing on one organ as clearly as does man's change of voice. In both sexes the changes fall somewhere around the fourteenth year. Once again, this is an essential change in the organism. What is really happening there? What is different after puberty? The whole life of will of the human being is quite changed! Try to compare a nineteen year-old with a thirteen-year-old, directing your attention to the concrete life of will. The whole life of will becomes quite different; otherwise feelings of love could not enter the life of will. Again, a transformation in the soul life! When through spiritual science we investigate what is going on, we come to the following: We increasingly grow together with the outer world, especially in the time between the change of teeth and puberty; we grasp more and more of this outer world; our will becomes more and more oriented and we learn to bring it into harmony with the things and events of the external world. When one really studies the whole complex confronting us here, one finds that during this time the human being acquires for himself the will element, not from within, but through contact with the outer world. 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Versuchen Sie zu vergleichen den neunzehnjährigen mit dem dreizehnjährigen Menschen und den Blick hinzuwenden auf das konkrete Willensleben. Das ganze Willensleben wird anders, es könnte ja sonst nicht das Liebegefühl in das Willensleben hineinkommen. Wiederum solch ein Umschwung im seelischen Leben! Wenn wir geisteswissenschaftlich erforschen, um was es sich handelt, kommen wir auf das Folgende: Wir wachsen immer mehr mit der Außenwelt zusammen, insbesondere in der Zeit vom Zahnwechsel bis zur Geschlechtsreife; wir ergreifen immer mehr von dieser Außenwelt, unser Wille wird immer orientierter und orientierter, wir lernen unseren Willen in Übereinstimmung bringen mit den Dingen und Vorgängen der Außenwelt. Wenn man den ganzen Komplex, der hier vorliegt, wirklich studiert, dann findet man, daß in dieser Zeit der Mensch sich aneignet, und zwar durch seinen Verkehr mit der äußeren Welt, nicht von innen heraus, das Willenselement. Es war eine tiefe Intuition, als der Dichter sagte: «Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.» Das Talent sproßt von innen heraus auf, der Charakter, das heißt das Willenselement, bildet sich im Strom der Welt, im Austausch der inneren Kräfte mit äußeren Kräften. Aber der Mensch muß sich wehren gegen das, was ihm von der äußeren Welt kommt; das Innere muß reagieren, das Innere muß dasjenige stauen, was von der Außenwelt kommt. Diesem willensbildenden Element, das von dem Wechselverkehr mit der äußeren Welt an den Menschen herantritt, dem tritt eine innere Kraft entgegen: das staut sich beim Mann im Kehlkopf, beim Weibe in andern Organen, und dieses Stauen, dieses Zusammenprallen des äußeren Willenselementes mit dem inneren Willenselement, das drückt sich aus in der Umwandlung des Kehlkopfes oder ähnlicher Organe. Da sehen Sie auch das Geistige der Außenwelt an dem Menschen arbeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-09-18/p014"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-09-18/p015","GA 199/1920-09-18/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":405,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6369,"original_word_count":5930,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA199/English/AP1986/19200918p01.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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