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On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-16","location":null,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/226/1923-05-16/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Erna McArthur","identified_edition":"AP1966","book_title":"Man's Being, His Destiny and World-Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA226/English/AP1966/19230516p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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