Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-22/p015 ·1923-07-22 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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We do not adapt to animal sounds in such an external way as the woof-woof theory assumes, but we experience external things precisely through our ego and astral body. And one will only understand the wonderful formation of the lips and tongue and palate and so on, down to all the various organs of speech, when one properly considers the fact that not only from within — which could be explored through physiology, for example — but also from outside, the tongue, lips, palate, and so on are formed from the outside into the human being, so that the things of the outside world really live in the formations of the organs that underlie speech.

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