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For I said to myself that, while Goethe was writing the “fairy-tales,” he had, as it were, looked across the boundary and had seen into the spiritual world. But nevertheless what he wrote about natural processes gave no attention to this glimpse. Therefore he could not be interpreted on the basis of this insight.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Chapter XII","site_heading":"Goethe's Living Thinking and Spiritual Knowledge Integration","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ich konnte meine Goethe-Interpretation für Kürschners «Deutsche Nationalliteratur» nur in dem Stile fortsetzen, in dem ich sie begonnen hatte, genügte mir aber damit selber nicht. Denn ich sagte mir, Goethe habe, während er an dem «Märchen» schrieb, wie von der Grenze zur geistigen Welt in diese hinübergesehen. Was er aber dann noch über die Naturvorgänge schrieb, das läßt doch wieder den Einblick unbeachtet. Man kann ihn deshalb auch nicht von diesem Einblick aus interpretieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/28/l12/p023"}],"english":["GA 28/l12/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":170,"en_words":189,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.16,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2485,"original_word_count":2144,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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