{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 204/1921-04-02_02/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is not surprising that somebody who relies so much on his body acquires the feeling that this physical body is the only thing working in the human being. Human life had indeed taken such a turn that it worked its way completely into the physical body; people therefore arrived at the belief that the physical body is everything in the human organization. I do not think that any other age but ours, which has attached this high value on the physical body, could have come to such a grotesque invention—forgive the expression—as stenography. Obviously, when people did not rely as yet on stenography, they did not attach so great a value to preserving and accurately recording words and the sequence of words such as is the aim in stenography. After all, only the imprint in the physical body can make so fast and firm a record. It is therefore the predilection for imprinting something in the physical body that has brought about the other preference for preserving this imprinted word, but by no means for retaining anything that stands one level higher. For stenography could play no part if we wished to preserve those forms that express themselves in the etheric body. It takes the materialistic tendency to invent something as grotesque as shorthand.","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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The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/204/1921-04-02_02/p038","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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Denn man hat ja, als man keine Stenographie gehabt hat, nicht solchen Wert darauf gelegt, das Wort und die Wortfolge so unbedingt festzuhalten und so festzuprägen die Worte, wie sie im Stenogramm festgehalten werden wollen. So festprägen kann sie ja nur der Abdruck im physischen Leib. Also nur die besondere Vorliebe für das Abprägen im physischen Leibe bewirkt auch die andere Vorliebe, dieses abgeprägte Wort zu erhalten, ja nicht irgend etwas zu erhalten, was um ein Niveau höher erhoben ist. Da hätte die Stenographie nämlich nichts zu suchen, wenn man diejenigen Formen festhalten wollte, die sich im ätherischen Leibe ausprägen. Es gehörte schon die materialistische Tendenz dazu, um etwas so Groteskes zu erfinden, wie es die Stenographie ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-02_02/p031"}],"english":["GA 204/1921-04-02_02/p038"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":224,"en_words":215,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5772,"original_word_count":5403,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA204/English/AP1987/19210402p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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