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We note that the ideals, *freedom*, *equality*, and *brotherhood* appear all at once in the most extreme abstraction. We see them taken up by skeptics such as Voltaire,[^1] by enthusiasts such as Rousseau;[^2] we see them emerge generally in the broad masses of the people. We see how the abstraction, which is fully justified in this sphere, affects the social structure","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/204/1921-04-30/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-04-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":285,"ratio":1.05,"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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In England, the vestiges of the old Germanic patriarchal life are permeated by what the element of modern technology and modern materialistic, scientific life could incorporate into the social structure. In France, we have tradition everywhere. We could say that the French Revolution has been enacted in the same manner in which a Brutus or a Caesar once acted in the most diverse ways in ancient Rome. Thus, here also, freedom, equality and brotherhood surfaced in abstract forms. Unlike in England, the old existing patriarchal element was not destroyed from the outside. Instead, the Roman juridical tradition, the adherence to the ancient concept of property and ownership of land, inheritance laws, and so on, what had been established in the Roman-juristic tradition was corroded by abstraction, driven asunder by abstraction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/204/1921-04-30/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-04-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":285,"ratio":1.05,"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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We only need remind ourselves that prior to the French Revolution those who, in a sense, distinguished themselves from the masses of the nation also had legal privileges. Only certain people could aspire to particular positions in government. What the French Revolution demanded based on abstraction and the shadowlike intellect was to make breaches into that system to undermine it. But it did bear the stamp of the shadowy intellect, the abstraction. Therefore, the demands that were being made fundamentally remained a kind of ideology. For this reason, we can say that anything that is of the shadowy intellect immediately turns into its opposite.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/204/1921-04-30/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-04-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":120,"ratio":1.0,"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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The first half of the nineteenth century was certainly experimentation without a goal in France. What is the nature of the events through which somebody like Louis-Philippe, for example, becomes king of France, and so on—what sort of experimenting is carried out? It is done in such a way that one can recognize that the shadowy intellect is incapable of truly intervening in the actual conditions. Everything basically remains undone and incomplete; it all remains as legacy of ancient Romanism. We are justified in saying that even today the relationship to, say, the Catholic Church, which the French Revolution had quite clearly defined in abstraction, has not been clarified in France in external, concrete reality. And how unclear was it time and again in the course of the nineteenth century! Abstract reasoning had struggled up to a certain level during the Revolution; then came experimentation and the inability to cope with external conditions. In this way, this nation encountered the year 1840.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/204/1921-04-30/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-04-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":183,"ratio":1.09,"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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Seine Kulmination, seinen Höhepunkt hat ja das, was da noch vorhanden war an Leben der Verstandesseele, in der Französischen Revolution am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts gefunden. Wir sehen, wie da plötzlich in äußerster Abstraktion auftauchen die Ideale von «Freiheit», «Gleichheit», «Brüderlichkeit». Wir sehen, wie sie ergriffen werden von solchen Skeptikern wie Voltaire, von solchen Enthusiasten wie Rousseau, wir sehen, wie sie überhaupt auftauchen aus der breiten Masse des Volkes; wir sehen, wie die Abstraktion, die vollberechtigt ist auf diesem Gebiete, hier eingreift in das Gefüge der sozialen Struktur - eine ganz andere Entwickelung als drüben in England. In England die Überreste des altgermanischen patriatchalischen Lebens, durchsetzt von dem, was die moderne Technik, was das moderne materialistische wissenschaftliche Leben in die soziale Struktur hineinsenden konnte, in Frankreich alles Überlieferung, alles Tradition. Man möchte sagen: Mit demselben Duktus, mit dem einstmals ein Brutus oder Cäsar in Rom in den verschiedensten Schattierungen gewirkt haben, mit demselben Duktus wird jetzt die Französische Revolution in Szene gesetzt. So taucht wiederum auf in abstrakten Formen das, was Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit ist. Und nicht von außen herein wird da zersprengt, wie in England, dasjenige, was als altes patriarchalisches Element vorhanden ist, sondern das romanisch-juristische Festsetzen, das Festhalten an dem alten Eigentumsbegriff, an den Grundbesitzerverhältnissen und so weiter, an den Erbschaftsverhältnissen namentlich, das, was römisch-juristisch festgesetzt ist, wird von der Abstraktion her zersetzt, wird von der Abstraktion her auseinandergetrieben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p021"},{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Man braucht nur zu denken, welchen ungeheuren Einschnitt in das ganze europäische Leben die Französische Revolution brachte. Man braucht ja nur daran zu erinnern, daß vor der Französischen Revolution diejenigen, die, ich möchte sagen, herausgesondert waren aus der Masse des Volkes, auch Rechtsvorteile hatten. Nur gewisse Leute konnten, sagen wir, zu gewissen Staatsstellungen kommen. Da Breschen hineinzuschlagen, das zu durchlöchern, das war dasjenige, was aus der Abstraktion heraus, aus dem schattenhaften Verstande heraus die Französische Revolution forderte. Aber sie trug eben durchaus in sich das Gepräge des schattenhaften Verstandes, der Abstraktion, und es blieb im Grunde genommen das, was da gefordert wurde, eine Art Ideologie. Daher, könnte man sagen, schlägt dasjenige, was schattenhafter Verstand ist, sogleich um in sein Gegenteil.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p022"},{"locus":"GA 204/1921-04-30/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wir sehen dann den Napoleonismus und wir sehen das staatlich-soziale Experimentieren im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die erste Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist ja in Frankreich ein Experimentieren ohne Ziel. Wie sind die Ereignisse, durch welche so ein Louis-Philippe zum Beispiel König von Frankreich wird und dergleichen, wie wird da experimentiert? — Es wird so experimentiert, daß man sieht, der schattenhafte Verstand vermag nicht wirklich in die realen Verhältnisse einzugreifen. Es bleibt alles ungetan im Grunde genommen, es bleibt alles unvollendet, es bleibt alles Erbschaft des alten Romanismus. Man könnte sagen: Heute ist noch immer nicht das Verhältnis, das die Französische Revolution im Abstrakten ganz klar hatte, das Verhältnis, sagen wir zur katholischen Kirche, in der äußeren konkreten Wirklichkeit in Frankreich geklärt. Und wie unklar war es von Zeit zu Zeit immer wiederum im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der abstrakte Verstand hatte sich zu einer gewissen Höhe heraufgerungen in der Revolution, und dann ein Experimentieren, ein Nicht-Gewachsensein den äußeren Verhältnissen. Und so traf diese Nation das Jahr 1840.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/204/1921-04-30/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[22,23],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}