{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us next consider one activity which the child learns—namely, speech—with regard to the entire evolution of the human being. It must really be said that what the child learns there is something magnificent. Jean Paul, the German poet, has said that in the first three years of life—that is, the years in which the essential things we learn are to walk, to speak and to think—the human being learns much more than in the three academic years. Meanwhile the “three” academic years have become many, but a man still learns no more in those three years than he learns as a child in the first three years of life.—Let us now consider speech. In speaking there is first the outer physical-physiological factor: that is, the larynx and the rest of our speech organs are set in motion. They move the air, which becomes the medium of tone. Here we have, in a way, the physical-physiological part. But in what we say there is *soul* also. And the soul permeates and gleams through all that we utter in the sounds. In as far as speech is something physical, man's physical body and his etheric body have a share in it. As a matter f course, these are silent from the time of going to sleep until the time of wakening. That is, the normal human being does not speak between going to sleep and waking; but in as much as the soul and the ego have a share in speech, they—the astral body and ego—take with them the soul power of speech, when they pass out of the physical and etheric bodies at the time of going to sleep—and they actually take with them everything of a soul nature which the person has put into his speech during the whole day. We are really different beings each evening, for we have been busy talking all day long—one more, another less, many all too much, many also too little—but, no matter, we have been occupied with talking throughout the day, and we have put our souls into what we have said. And what we have put into our speech, that we take with us into sleep, and it remains our *being* between sleeping and waking.","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":374,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p015","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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Man muß wirklich sagen: Das, was da das Kind lernt, ist etwas Großartiges, und Jean Paul, der deutsche Dichter, hat gesagt, in den drei ersten Lebensjahren - wo man also wesentlich gehen, sprechen, denken lernt - lerne der Mensch viel mehr als in den drei akademischen Jahren. Mittlerweile sind ja die drei akademischen Jahre viele geworden, man lernt aber noch immer nicht mehr in den «drei» akademischen Jahren, als man in den drei ersten Lebensjahren als Kind lernt. Nun, betrachten wir das Sprechen! In dem Sprechen liegt zunächst das äußerlich Physisch-Physiologische: unser Kehlkopf und unsere übrigen Sprachorgane kommen in Bewegung, sie bewegen die Luft. Es wird der Ton vermittelt. Da kommen wir. gewissermaßen an das äußerlich Physisch-Physiologische heran. Aber in dem, was wir sprechen, ist ja auch Seele, und die Seele durchzieht und durchglüht alles dasjenige, was wir in den Lauten von uns geben. Ja, insofern die Sprache etwas Physisches gibt, sind der physische Leib und der Ätherleib des Menschen daran beteiligt. Die schweigen selbstverständlich vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen, das heißt, der normale Mensch spricht ja nicht vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen. Aber insofern Seele und Ich am Sprechen beteiligt sind, nehmen Seele und Ich, der astralische Leib und das Ich, indem sie beim Einschlafen aus dem physischen Leib und dem Ätherleib herausgehen, das seelische Sprachvermögen mit, und damit eigentlich alles, was der Mensch während des ganzen Tages seelisch in sein Sprechen hineingelegt hat. Wir sind ja eigentlich an jedem Abend andere Menschen, denn wir haben uns den ganzen Tag über sprechend betätigt, die einen viel, andere weniger, manche allzuviel, manche auch zu wenig, aber immerhin, wir haben uns den ganzen Tag sprechend betätigt und unsere Seele in die Sprache hineingelegt. Und das, was wir da hineingelegt haben in die Sprache, das nehmen wir mit dem Einschlafen mit, das bleibt unser Wesen zwischen Einschlafen und Aufwachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p013"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p015"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":327,"en_words":374,"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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