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And we are aware, when we consider what has now been said, that the human being as he is today is imperfect and cannot consciously carry within him that which works in him in the first years of life; he must first make himself more perfect so that he can consciously carry within him that which now works unconsciously in him in the first three years of childhood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-06","location":null,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-06/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110606s01.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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