{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 232/1923-11-24/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Modern humanity approaches such matters superficially and with little real thought. Only this morning I was reading a book dealing with the head of a well-known, now extinct, Royal Family, and the effect of heredity on the dynasty. The author mentions qualities and characteristics which can be traced right back to the seventh century and were repeatedly inherited. Then comes a passage to the effect that some members of this Royal Family have displayed a marked tendency towards freakish behaviour, eccentricity and the like. Again, we are told that there are members of the same family who have no such tendencies. You will agree that this is a peculiar kind of thinking, for surely a writer who makes such a statement would realise that no conclusions whatever can be drawn from it. But if you examine much of what at the present time is supposed to lead to well-founded views, you will find plenty of similar examples.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. The Effect Of The Soul Upon Physical Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-11-24","location":null,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-11-24/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA232/English/RSP1972/19231124p01.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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Der lautet etwa folgendermaßen: In diesem Herrscherhause sind Leute, die auffällig zeigen, daß sie neigen zu Extravaganzen, daß sie neigen zu Paradoxien des Lebens, zu Ausschweifungen und so weiter, aber es gibt auch noch Mitglieder dieses Herrscherhauses, die all das nicht haben. Sie sehen: eine eigentümliche Art, zu denken! Denn man sollte eigentlich voraussetzen, daß jemand, der so etwas bemerkt, sich sagen müßte: Aus solchen Voraussetzungen kann man überhaupt nichts schließen. Wenn Sie aber durchgehen vieles von dem, was in der Gegenwart zu sogenannten sicheren Ansichten führt, da werden Sie vieles dergleichen finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-11-24/p007"}],"english":["GA 232/1923-11-24/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":171,"en_words":157,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4946,"original_word_count":5362,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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