{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277b/1920-04-17/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There will now be a short break. After the break, the program will include Goethe's “Hymn to Nature.” Goethe's prose hymn “To Nature” is like a prefiguration of his worldview. One could say that Goethe conceived of it around the beginning of the 1780s. And it came about in the following way – I tried to describe the entire genesis in the seventh volume of the journal of the Goethe Society many years ago – it came about in the following way: Goethe did not write it down immediately, but he had the thoughts in his soul and discussed them with the Swiss Tobler, who was then living in Weimar. Apparently, while walking with Tobler in the open air, Goethe spoke this prose hymn, and it can be found in Tobler's writing in the Tiefurter Journal in Weimar, which still exists today. Tobler then wrote it down directly from the conversation. I tried to prove that this is the genesis. As I said, you will find a discussion of it in the seventh volume of the writings of the Goethe Society. And I could not be shaken in this recognition of the genesis by anything, not even by what has been written here recently. Goethe himself acknowledged that he proceeded from what he wrote in this prose hymn by then developing everything that is contained in his metamorphosis and so on. And he called everything that came later a kind of comparative of his world view, in contrast to the positive. So we can say that this prose hymn contains everything that is then met by us in the most highly metamorphosed form as the Goethean world view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"59. 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Und nach derselben wird Ihnen unter anderem vorgeführt werden Goethes «Hymnus an die Natur». Goethes Prosahymnus «An die Natur» ist wie eine Vorverkündigung seiner Weltanschauung. Goethe hat ihn etwa erdacht, kann man sagen, im Beginn der 80er Jahre des 18. Jahrhunderts. Und er ist so entstanden - ich habe versucht, die ganze Entstehungsgeschichte im siebenten Bande in den Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft vor vielen Jahren schon darzustellen -, er ist so entstanden, dass Goethe ihn nicht unmittelbar aufgeschrieben hat, sondern er hatte die Gedanken in seiner Seele und durchsprach sie mit dem damals in Weimar weilenden Schweizer Tobler. Offenbar mit Tobler im Freien sich ergehend, hat Goethe diesen Prosahymnus hingesprochen, und in der Schrift Toblers findet er sich auch im heute noch vorhandenen Tiefurter Journal in Weimar. Tobler schrieb ihn dann unmittelbar aus dem Gespräch nieder. Dass so die Entstehungsgeschichte ist, versuchte ich dazumal nachzuweisen. Sie finden, wie gesagt, eine Abhandlung davon im siebenten Bande der Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft. Und ich konnte in dieser Anerkennung der Entstehungsgeschichte durch nichts, auch nicht durch dasjenige irgendwie erschüttert werden, was jetzt - in der letzten Zeit namentlich - hier geschrieben worden ist. Goethe hat ja selbst anerkannt, dass er von dem, was er in diesem Prosahymnus niedergeschrieben hat, ausgegangen ist, indem er alles das dann fortgebildet hat, dasjenige, was in seiner Metamorphose und so weiter enthalten ist. Und er nannte alles Spätere eine Art Komperativ seiner Weltanschauung - im Gegensatz zu diesem Positiv. Sodass man also sagen kann: In diesem Prosahymnus ist enthalten alles dasjenige, was dann im höchsten Grade metamorphosisch gesteigert als Goethe’sche Weltanschauung uns entgegentritt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277b/1920-04-17/p018"}],"english":["GA 277b/1920-04-17/p018"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":268,"en_words":278,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2719,"original_word_count":2730,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277b/English/SOL2024/19200417e01.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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