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Already in the first weeks of their upbringing spent in their environment—because even outer culture, outer civilization propagates in a straight line from generation to generation, but excluding inner soul impulses—these people outwardly adopt Christianity and then from outside they are moulded which we today often encounter as singular and unique. By our impartial observation these people may be seen, if our glance is penetrated thoroughly into its spiritual-intellectual-characteristic aspect, as if something is pulsing within them, something which had been conveyed by their soul from the past.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-12","location":null,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Das ist eben nicht allein der Fall, sondern es sind in diese Leiber, die das Blut der Vorfahren in sich tragen, namentlich in das Gros der Bevölkerung eingezogen die westlichen Seelen; Seelen also, welche durch ihre innere Entwickelung noch nichts von dem christlichen Impuls hatten, die im wesentlichen eine Art pantheistischen Impulses in sich trugen. Durch die Erziehung in den ersten Wochen schon, die sie in ihrer Umgebung verbrachten — denn gerade die äußere Kultur, die äußere Zivilisation pflanzt sich in geradliniger Weise von Generation zu Generation fort, nicht aber die inneren Impulse der Seele -, nahmen diese Menschen von außen her das Christentum an; von außen her wurden sie geformt zu dem, als was sie uns heute oftmals einzig und allein erscheinen. Wer aber unbefangen ist und auf die Menschen hinsieht, wer sie betrachtet so, daß er mit seinem Blick sie wirklich charakterologisch durchdringt, der sieht in ihnen pulsieren, was mit den Seelen in sie herübergekommen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":239,"en_words":215,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5149,"original_word_count":5416,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.9,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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