{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-04-13/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now in those far-off times when an element of will came to expression in man's speech—that is, in the later part of the Atlantean evolution—it was not the same Beings of the Hierarchy who lived in his language as in more recent times. The whole relationship moreover was different. In those remote times man was not yet so interested in the feelings aroused in him at the sight, for example, of the blossoming of flowers or by changes in weather. These feelings interested him, it is true, in another connection, but not in respect of the faculty whereby the *word* welled up from the depths of his soul. Whether danger threatened him from this or that fact in Nature, summoning him to defend himself, or whether something else had a kindly and favourable influence and he would fain bring it into the orbit of his life, or again whether another object of perception were good or bad for his health,—in effect, how his *will* was aroused to activity, what he was induced to *do* under the influence of some fact or other,—this was the aspect of experience that interested him, and he formed his words accordingly. So that in those older times we find words that express how man reacts, what he finds himself impelled to do under the influence of the world around him. The most ancient language of all consisted almost entirely of expressions of will. How do we account for this? It was due to the fact that the Archangels came to language by way of *Intuition*. Read the descriptions I have given in my books of the nature of Intuition, and you will have a picture of the activity exercised by the Archangels in the later part of the Atlantean evolution, when they bestowed upon man the *language of will*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-13","location":null,"word_count":304,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-04-13/p007","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/Singles/19230413p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Das interessierte ihn in anderer Beziehung, nicht aber in bezug auf jene Fähigkeit, die aus den Tiefen seiner Seele hervorsprießen läßt das Wort. Für die Wortbildung interessierte ihn, ob ihm zum Beispiel Gefahr drohte von dieser oder jener äußeren Tatsache, ob er etwas abzuwehren hatte, oder ob etwas auf ihn günstig wirkte, so daß er es in seine Lebensverhältnisse hereinbeziehen wollte, ob etwas für seine Gesundheit förderlich oder schädlich war. Kurz, ob sein Wille nach dieser oder jener Richtung angeregt wurde, das interessierte ihn. Was er unter dem Einfluß der äußeren Tatsachen veranlaßt wurde zu tun, das interessierte ihn, und danach waren die Worte gebildet. In jener alten Zeit waren die Worte durchaus Ausdrücke für die menschlichen Reaktionsvorgänge, für das, was sich der Mensch veranlaßt sah zu tun unter dem Einflusse der Welt. Willensausdrücke waren fast die einzigen Ausdrücke, die die urältesten Sprachen während der menschlichen Erdenentwickelung hatten. Und woher kam das? 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