Address on Eurythmy

I believe that this has at least inaugurated something, even if it has not yet been achieved, that is capable of development. And over the last few years, we have seen how our members who practice eurythmy have advanced the cause, how they have been able to add the resonance of feeling and will to it. The matter can be taken further, can gradually be brought into the public eye. However, it must be assumed that there will be terrible criticism of the matter; but that is only to be expected. We must persevere. But we should not believe that eurythmy, when it is said that it should be brought into the public eye, should be transferred into the world of contemporary philistinism. If you believe that anything serious can be done in today's educational institutions, which are permeated by the worst kind of philistinism, by introducing a part of it, you would be indulging in terrible illusions. What I meant yesterday by bringing it into the public sphere was that this art should be presented to the public by those who are skilled in it, and then we should wait and see how it is received. I did not mean that it should be transferred immediately into the philistine world. Transferring our cause to the vast land of philistinism, which now surrounds all endeavors that are found there only as isolated oases—the land of philistinism can only learn about things little by little in an extremely cautious manner and be impressed by them.