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You should take it in by dint of effort and soul activity. To make spiritual science your own you must work at it in the sweat of your soul—please forgive me for not being very polite. That belongs to the business of spiritual science, if you will excuse the mundane expression.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Aber es gehört zum Wesen der Geisteswissenschaft, daß sie Anforderungen stellt an die Aktivität des Seelenlebens, daß man gewissermaßen nicht leicht zu der Anerkennung des Geisteswissenschaftlichen kommt, denn es handelt sich innerhalb dieser Geisteswissenschaft nicht etwa bloß darum, daß man dieses oder jenes aufnimmt, was die Geisteswissenschaft über diese oder jene Dinge zu sagen hat, sondern es handelt sich darum, »ze man es aufnehmen kann, daß man es mit Anstrengung, mit Aktivität der Seele aufnimmt, daß man gleichsam, verzeihen Sie den weniger höflichen Ausdruck, im Schweiße seiner Seele sich erarbeiten muß das geisteswissenschaftliche Gut. Das gehört, verzeihen Sie den mechanischen Ausdruck, zum geisteswissenschaftlichen Betriebe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/275/1914-12-28/p021"}],"english":["GA 275/1914-12-28/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":192,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 275/1914-12-28/p021"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7306,"original_word_count":7110,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle and Johanna Collis","identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA275/English/RSP1984/19141228p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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