43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III
GA 246/1911-06-07/p049
·1911-06-07
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English
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
In our present-day science live the retarded forces of the ancient Egyptian and Chaldean world, which were then justified forces, but now represent retarded ones, and which we must recognize! Then they will not harm us, but will allow us to enter the world with both feet. These forces must find their utilization; they must be there; otherwise we would not have our great achievements in technology, industry and so on.
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