33. Eurythmy Performance

But it also has a particularly strong effect on the will initiative, which is so urgently needed in our time, because it works deep within the human being. I would like to say that it is precisely in the child - it is less evident in the adult - that truthfulness is brought to bear. For one can lie in a language that has become conventional, especially at a civilized stage of human development, one can say empty phrases. But with what wells up out of the whole human being from a visible language of eurythmy, one cannot fall into phrase. The child therefore learns truthfulness, a sense of truth through this eurythmy.