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And it will be noticed further how the modulation of the words, how the forming of the words, has a certain parallel with the way the child learns to bend the fingers or to keep them straight, whether it is skillful or unskillful. But anyone who can then observe the entire inner nature of the human organization will be able to know—what even the present-day teaching of evolution concedes—that “right-handed” people not only have the speech-center in the left third convolution of the forehead, in the so-called Broca convolution, which represents in a quite simple physiological way the characteristic relation between speech and the ability to grasp, the entire ability to handle the arm and the hand, if I may make use of the pleonasm; but we know also how closely the movement of the vocal cords, the whole adjustment of the speech organism, takes on exactly the same character which the movements of walking and grasping assume. But in the normal development of the child, speech which, as you know, is developed in imitation of the environment, cannot develop at all unless the foundation is first laid in the quest of the state of equilibrium in life.","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":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p005","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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Und man wird ferner merken, wie die Modulation der Worte, wie die Konturierung der Worte einen gewissen Parallelismus hat mit der Art und Weise, wie das Kind lernt, geschickt oder ungeschickt seine Fingerchen zu biegen oder geradezuhalten. Aber wer dann das ganze Innere des menschlichen Organismus beobachten kann, der wird wissen können, wie nicht nur, was ja auch die heutige Entwickelungslehre zugibt, rechtshändige Menschen in der linken dritten Stirnwindung, in der sogenannten Brocaschen Windung, das Sprachzentrum haben — was ganz einfach physiologisch den charakteristischen Zusammenhang zwischen der Sprache und dem Greifvermögen, wenn ich mich des Pleonasmus bedienen darf: des ganzen Handhabungsvermögens des Armes und der Hand vergegenwärtigt -, sondern er weiß auch, wie intim die Bewegung der Stimmbänder, die ganze Einstellung des Sprachorganismus genau denselben Charakter annimmt, den die Geh- und Greifbewegungen annehmen. Aber es kann sich bei der normalen kindlichen Entwickelung das Sprechen, das ja in Nachahmung der Umgebung entwickelt wird, gar nicht entwickeln, ohne daß die Grundlage des Aufsuchens der Gleichgewichtslage im Leben erst da ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p005"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p005"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":319,"ratio":1.24,"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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