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The forms of the corpse, its members, point not only to the corpse itself but to what brought it into being. Anyone who rightly views a corpse in the context of life is directed by it to the living man who produced it. Nature, to which we surrender the corpse, can only destroy it; it cannot build it up as such. If we wish to see the upbuilding forces in the corpse, we must look upon the living man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Cognition and Will Exercises","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-09-09","location":null,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-09/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Lisa D. Monges, Doris M Bugbey. 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