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But the Earth has not always been as it is today; it has undergone tremendous changes, and if we go back to the epochs I have just mentioned—perhaps only to the Lemurian epoch or a little earlier—we shall find an Earth very different from that of today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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Wir schauen dann hin auf die Ozeane, auf die Meere und bekommen eben - weitere Einzelheiten brauche ich ja nicht zu erwähnen - ein Bild dessen, was wir als den Planeten vorstellen, den wir im Weltenall bewohnen. Nun sehen Sie, so wie da die Erde jetzt ist, war sie aber nicht immer, sondern sie hat sogar sehr starke, gewaltige Verwandlungen durchgemacht. Gehen wir zu den Zeiträumen, auf die ich eben jetzt hingedeutet habe, zurück, gehen wir nur ins lemurische Zeitalter und etwas weiter zurück, dann finden wir eine ganz andere Erdbeschaffenheit als jetzt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/232/1923-12-01/p005"}],"english":["GA 232/1923-12-01/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":197,"en_words":169,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4960,"original_word_count":5577,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. 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