{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 20/l03/p006","lang":"en","edition":"MP1990","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Through Immanuel Hermann Fichte the cognitive impulse manifesting in the idealism of German world views is brought to the point of undertaking the first of those steps which can lead human insight to a science of the spiritual world. Many other thinkers strove like Immanuel Hermann Fichte to carry further the ideas of their predecessors: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. For, this German idealism points to the germinal power for a real development of those cognitive powers of man that behold the supersensible spiritual the way our senses behold the sense-perceptible material. Let us just look at several of these thinkers. One can see how fruitful the spiritual stream of German idealism proves to be in this direction if one does not refer merely to those thinkers who are discussed in the usual textbooks on the history of philosophy, but also to those whose spiritual work was enclosed within narrower boundaries. For example, there are the *Little Writings* (published 1869 in Leipzig) of Johann Heinrich Deinhardt, who died in Bromberg on August 16, 1867 as headmaster of a secondary school. His book contains essays on “the antithesis between pantheism and deism in pre-Christian religions,” on the “concept of religion,” on “Kepler, his life and character,” etc. The basic undertone of these treatises is altogether of a sort to show how the thought-life of their author is rooted in the idealism of German world views. One of these essays speaks about the “reasonable grounds for believing in the immortality of the human soul.” This essay defends immortality at first only with reasons that spring from our ordinary thinking. But at the end, the following significant note is added by the publisher: “According to a letter of August 14, 1866 to his publishers, the author intended to expand this essay for the complete edition of his collected ‘Little Writings’ with an observation about the new body that the soul is working to develop for itself already in this life. The author's death the following year prevented the carrying out of this plan.” How a remark like this spotlights the effect upon thinkers of the idealism of German world views, stimulating them to penetrate in a scientific way into the spiritual realm! How many such attempts a person would discover today, even by investigating only those thinkers still to be found in literature! How many there must be that bore no fruit in literature but a great deal in life! One is looking there really, in the scientific consciousness ruling in our day, at a more or less forgotten stream in German spiritual life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"A Forgotten Stream in German Spiritual Life","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":432,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/20/l03/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1990"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/20/l03/p006"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1990","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/20/l03/p006","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 20/l03/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/20/l03/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":394,"en_words":432,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Wie fruchtbar sich die deutsche idealistische Geistesströmung nach dieser Richtung hin erweist, sieht man, wenn man nicht bloß auf diejenigen Geister deutet, die in den gebräuchlichen Handbüchern über Philosophie-Geschichte behandelt werden, sondern auch auf solche, deren geistiges Wirken in engere Grenzen eingeschlossen war. Es gibt zum Beispiel «Kleine Schriften» von dem am 16. August 1867 in Bromberg als Gymnasialdirektor verstorbenen *Johann Heinrich Deinhardt* (Hermann Schmidt hat diese Schriften 1869 in Leipzig, bei B.G. Teubner, herausgegeben). Man findet darin Aufsätze über «den Gegensatz des Pantheismus und des Deismus in den vorchristlichen Religionen», über «den Begriff der Religion», über «Kepler, Leben und Charakter» usw. Der Grundton dieser Abhandlungen ist durchaus ein solcher, der zeigt, wie ihres Verfassers Gedankenleben im deutschen Weltanschauungs-Idealismus wurzelt. Einer der Aufsitze spricht über die «Vernunftgründe für die Unsterblichkeit der menschlichen Seele». Dieser Aufsatz verteidigt die Unsterblichkeit zunächst nur mit den Gründen, die sich dem gewöhnlichen Denken ergeben. Allein am Schlusse findet sich die folgende bedeutungsvolle Anmerkung des Herausgebers: «Der Verfasser hatte nach einem Briefe an den Herausgeber vom 14. August 1866 die Absicht, diese Abhandlung bei der Gesamtausgabe seiner gesammelten kleinen Schriften durch eine Bemerkung über den neuen Leib, den sich die Seele schon in diesem Leben ausarbeitete, zu erweitern. Sein im Jahr darauf erfolgender Tod verhinderte die Ausführung dieses Plans.» Wie wirft eine solche Bemerkung ein Streiflicht auf die Anregungen, die vom deutschen Weltanschauungs-Idealismus aus die Geister trieben, in wissenschaftlicher Art in das Geistgebiet einzudringen! Wie viele derartige Versuche würde gegenwärtig jemand auffinden, der nur allein denjenigen nachginge, die in der Literatur noch zu finden sind! Wie viele lassen sie vermuten, die nicht für die Literatur, wohl aber für das Leben ihre Früchte getragen haben! Man blickt da auf eine in dem gegenwärtig herrschenden wissenschaftlichen Zeitbewußtsein wirklich mehr oder weniger vergessene Strömung des deutschen Geisteslebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":394,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/20/l03/p005"}],"english":["GA 20/l03/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":394,"en_words":432,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.16,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8529,"original_word_count":7362,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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