{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 204/1921-04-02_02/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In observing human beings today, one can find among them everywhere examples of all the stages between these two extremes. For one who has not trained his faculty of observation, it is nevertheless most difficult to distinguish whether a person is actually clever, in the sense that he thinks by means of his organs of reason, or whether he does not think with them at all, but instead by some means brings something into his consciousness, so that only the pictorial, imaginative element is developed in him, but so feebly that he himself is not even aware of it. Thus, there are any number of people today who produce most clever thoughts without having to be clever on that account, while others think very clever thoughts but have no special connection to any spiritual world. To learn to apprehend this distinction is one of the important psychological tasks of our age, and it affords the basis for important insight into human beings at the present time. With this explanation you will no longer find it difficult to understand that empirical super-sensible observation shows that the majority of mankind possessed the most perfectly developed organs of thought in the middle of the nineteenth century. At no other time was there so much thinking done with so little cleverness as in the middle of the nineteenth century.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Materialism's Rise and the Physical Body's Perfection","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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Und so sind alle möglichen Menschen heute vorhanden, die sehr gescheite Gedanken hervorbringen, aber deshalb gar nicht gescheit zu sein brauchen, während andere sehr gescheite Gedanken denken, aber in gar keiner besonderen Weise mit irgendeiner geistigen Welt in Beziehung stehen. Das Einschulen auf diese Unterscheidung, das gehört zu den bedeutsamen psychologischen Aufgaben in unserer Zeit und es liefert die Grundlage zu wichtiger Menschenkenntnis in der Gegenwart. Wenn Sie das zur Erklärung nehmen, so wird es Ihnen nicht mehr so unverständlich sein, daß sich der empirischen übersinnlichen Betrachtung eben ergibt, daß in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts der menschliche Organismus bei dem Gros der Menschen eben die vollkommensten Denkorgane hatte. Es wurde niemals so ausschließlich viel gedacht wie um die Mitte des 19. 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