{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There are three activities, however, which set in at this time, three things. which the child is learning. There is what we ordinarily sum up in the expression *learning to walk*, then what is connected with *learning to speak*, and what for the child is connected with *learning to think*. Now, in the expression “learning to walk”, for the sake of our own convenience we actually characterize something which is extraordinarily complex in an exceedingly brief way. We need only to recall how the child is at first utterly unadapted to life, how it gradually gains the ability to accommodate its own *position of balance* to the space in which it is to move during the entire life. It is not merely “learning to walk” which we observe in the child, but a seeking for the state of equilibrium in the earthly life. Connected with learning to walk is all use of the limbs. And for anyone who is able to observe such a matter in the right way, the most remarkable and most important of life's riddles actually find expression in this activity of learning to walk; a whole universe comes to expression in the manner in which the child progresses from creeping to the upright position, to the placing of the little feet, but also in addition to holding the head upright and to the use of arms and legs. And then anyone who has a more intimate insight into how one child steps more on the heel, and another is more inclined to step on the toes, will perhaps have an inkling of what I shall now have to tell you with regard to the three activities mentioned and their relation to the spiritual world. Only, I should like first to characterize these three activities as to their outer aspects.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-23","location":null,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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Es ist ja nicht bloß ein Gehenlernen, was wir beim Kinde wahrnehmen, sondern ein Aufsuchen der Gleichgewichtslage des irdischen Lebens, und verbunden mit diesem Gehenlernen ist der Gebrauch der Bewegungsgliedmaßen überhaupt. Für den, der für eine solche Sache das richtige Anschauungsvermögen hat, drücken sich in diesem Gehenlernen eigentlich die merkwürdigsten, großartigsten Lebensrätsel aus. Eine ganze Welt drückt sich aus in der Art und Weise, wie das Kind vom Kriechen zum Aufrichten, zum Füßchenstellen, aber auch zu allem andern, zum Aufrichten des Hauptes, zum Gebrauch der Arme und Gliedmaßen kommt. Und wer dann, ich möchte sagen, intimer da hineinsieht, wie das eine Kind das Füßchen mehr mit der Ferse aufstellt, das andere mehr dazu neigt, mit den Zehen aufzutreten, der wird vielleicht eine Ahnung bekommen von dem, was ich Ihnen gerade heute mit Bezug auf die genannten drei Tätigkeiten und ihren Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt werde auszuführen haben. Ich möchte nur vorher erst äußerlich diese drei Tätigkeiten noch charakterisieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p004"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p004"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":303,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9860,"original_word_count":9624,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frances E. 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