{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 225/1923-07-21/p063","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"While Hartmann conceived the destruction of the earth in such a demonic way, as only a person could conceive it who would sleep in the physical body, but then would become clairvoyant in the physical body - while Hartmann came to an intellectual formulation of earthly suffering, a person who was a friend of his who had exchanged many letters with him, writhing in real pain on his sickbed, in whom it had come about that many organs of his spiritual soul had not let him into the physical, who was experiencing earthly suffering, not inventing it, could only treat the soullessness of his age in a satirical way. That is Robert Hamerling, who wrote his “Homunculus” in the 1880s, when the perspective of the soullessness of the age dawned on him: the human being who only strives outwardly, who only ever accumulates more and more outwardly, and who finally becomes a billionaire – this terrible perspective of the soulless age was before Hamerling's soul's eye. And the soulless billionaire, the homunculus, who is born not through the agency of the soul but only in a mechanical way, through mechanical procreation, Hamerling has married to the soulless elemental spirit, to the mermaid, to the Lorelei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. 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Das ist Robert Hamerling, der in den achtziger Jahren seinen «Homunkulus» geschrieben hat, indem ihm aufging die Perspektive der Seelenlosigkeit des Zeitalters, jener Mensch, der nur im Äußeren strebt, der im Äußeren nur immer mehr und mehr zusammenrafft, der schließlich zum Billionär wird — diese furchtbare Perspektive des seelenlosen Zeitalters stand Hamerling vor dem Seelenauge. Und den seelenlosen Billionär, den Homunkulus, der nicht unter der Mitwirkung des Seelischen, sondern nur auf mechanische Weise, durch mechanische Zeugung zur Welt kommt, den läßt Hamerling mit dem seelenlosen Elementargeist, mit der Nixe, mit der Lorelei sich vermählen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/225/1923-07-21/p063"}],"english":["GA 225/1923-07-21/p063"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":205,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6465,"original_word_count":6221,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA225/English/SOL2024/19230721p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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