{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 204/1921-05-01/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Over in England, these matters run their course as questions of power. There, we find a certain spiritual movement that is typical of the Anglo-Saxon people. I have often pointed out that as the middle of the nineteenth century approached, certain people came to the conclusion that things could not be allowed to go on in the same way any longer; human beings had to be made aware of the fact that a spiritual world does exist. The merely shadowlike intellect did not suffice. Yet people could not make up their minds to bring this inclination towards the spirit to the attention of the world in a manner other than through something that is “super-materialistic,” namely, through spiritism. This spiritism, which in turn has a greater impact than one would think, has its origins there. Spiritism, out to grasp the spirit externally, so to speak, just as one grasps matter, is therefore super-materialistic, is more materialistic than materialism itself. Locke lives on, so to say, in this super-materialism. And this element that in a sense, dwells in the inner sphere of the modern cultural development, expresses itself outwardly. It is certainly again and again the same phenomenon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"Materialism's Rise and the Spiritual Task of Anthroposophy","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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Wir haben da eine gewisse innere Strömung, die insbesondere der anglo-amerikanischen Bevölkerung angehört. Da sagten sich gewisse Leute - ich habe das oft dargestellt —, als die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts herannahte: Es geht nicht mehr anders, es müssen die Menschen hingewiesen werden darauf, daß es eine geistige Welt gibt. Mit dem bloßen schattenhaften Verstand geht es nicht. - Aber man konnte sich nicht dazu entschließen, diese Hinneigung zum Geistigen auf eine andere Weise der Welt beizubringen, als durch etwas, was ein «Übermaterialismus» ist, nämlich durch den Spiritismus. Und der Spiritismus, der eine größere Macht wiederum hat, als man glaubt, findet von da seinen Ausgang. Der Spiritismus, der gewissermaßen darauf ausgeht, den Geist äußerlich zu ergreifen, wie man die Materie greift, der eben ein Übermaterialismus ist, ist materialistischer als der Materialismus selber. Locke pflanzt sich fort, möchte man sagen, in diesem Übermaterialismus. Und was da gewissermaßen im inneren Gebiete der modernen Kultutentwickelung lebt, es drückt sich äußerlich aus. Es ist durchaus immer wieder dieselbe Erscheinung. Wir haben ein Hinneigen zu derjenigen Geistesströmung, die de Maistre so radikal bekämpft in den vierziger Jahren drüben jenseits des Kanals: alles soll mit materiellen Entitäten begriffen werden. Wie Locke im Grunde genommen auf den Verstand so hinwies, daß er dem Verstand seine Geistigkeit nahm, daß er gerade das Geistigste im Menschen dazu benützte, um die Geistigkeit im Menschen zu verleugnen, ja, den Menschen nur hinzuweisen auf die Materialität, so wies man jetzt im 19. Jahrhundert auf den Geist und wollte ihn zeigen durch allerlei materielle Manifestationen. Den Geist wollte man dutch Materialismus der Menschheit begreiflich machen. 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