{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 232/1923-12-01/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But it is really not possible to speak of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulphur and the rest in those early times, simply because what the chemists call by these names today did not exist. If a spirit-being of those times were to have met a modern chemist who spoke to him about carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and the rest, he would have retorted that nothing of the kind exists. We can justifiably speak of carbon, oxygen or nitrogen today but this could not have been done in those early times. Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, as we speak of them today, became possible only when the Earth had reached a certain density and had developed forces such as it contains today. Neither oxygen, nitrogen, potassium, sodium nor any of the so-called fighter metals existed in those olden times. On the other hand, in the Earth’s environment that is filled today by our atmosphere there was something a little like albumen in consistency, a very fine fluid halfway between our present water and air. The Earth at that time was entirely surrounded by an albuminous atmosphere. The albumen we know in eggs today is very much coarser, but a comparison is possible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Mineral, Plant And Animal Creation","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-12-01","location":null,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/232/1923-12-01/p007","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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Denn so wahr es eine Möglichkeit gibt, von diesen Dingen heute zu reden, so wenig gab es eine Möglichkeit in der damaligen Zeit, von diesen Dingen zu reden. Sauerstoff, Stickstoff, Kohlenstoff, wie wir heute davon sprechen, sind als solche nur möglich, wenn die Erde eben eine bestimmte Dichte erreicht hat und solche Kräfte hat, wie sie sie heute hat. Sauerstoff, Stickstoff, Kalium, Natrium und so weiter, die gesamten weniger schweren sogenannten Metalle, die gab es in jener älteren Zeit gar nicht. Dagegen gab es in dieser Erdenumgebung, hier in diesem Umkreis, der dazumal das bildete, wofür wir heute den Luftkreis setzen, etwas, was ungeheuer feinflüssig war, so zwischen unserem heutigen Wasser und der Luft in der Mitte; feinflüssig war es, aber in seiner Feinflüssigkeit war es ähnlich dem Eiweiß. So daß eigentlich die Erde dazumal ganz umgeben war von einer Eiweiß-Atmosphäre. 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