{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We could cite many more instances; in every one of them we would find this fundamental difference between West and East. There is already a first indication of what perhaps will occur in the next few years. At the moment this manifests in outer symptoms taking place in Asia and about which Europe is still silent today—silent for well-known reasons. The fact, for instance, that more than half the population of India is near starvation will bring to birth, out of the spirituality of the Indian nation, something that will be very different from what has happened in Europe. These are outer symptoms. But also, in regard to these outer symptoms mankind is divided today into two essentially different parts. For the Indian hunger signifies something totally different from what it means to the European, because the Indian has behind him a soul development throughout millennia which is quite different from that of the European. These facts have to be sharply focused by anyone who wants to comprehend the course of mankind's evolution. Today we must be clear that what is usually called the social question is something much more complicated than is ordinarily imagined. This social question is an accompanying phenomenon of the culture that arose after the middle of the fifteenth century. I have repeatedly spoken to you about this significant incision in the history of civilized mankind in the middle of the fifteenth century. Since that time natural science has gradually arisen in its modern coloring. During that period, however, industrialism also has arisen in its modern coloring. Natural science and industrialism have been poured over modern humanity and have given it its particular spiritual trend.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Historical Requirements of the Present Time","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-08-09","location":null,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/296/1919-08-09/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bugbey","identified_edition":"AP1969","book_title":"Education as a Social Problem","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA296/English/AP1969/19190809p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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Aber auch mit Bezug auf diese äußeren Symptome sind die Menschen heute in zwei wesensverschiedene Glieder getrennt. Für den Inder bedeutet der Hunger etwas ganz anderes als für den Europäer, denn der Inder hat eine Jahrtausende alte andere seelische Entwickelung hinter sich als der Europäer. Diese Dinge, sie müssen heute scharf ins Auge gefaßt werden von dem, der etwas verstehen will von dem Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung. Wir müssen uns heute klar sein darüber, daß dasjenige, was man gewöhnlich die soziale Frage nennt, etwas viel Komplizierteres ist, als man gewöhnlich meint. Diese soziale Frage, sie ist ja eine Begleiterscheinung jener Kultur, die heraufgekommen ist seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Ich habe von diesem bedeutsamen Einschnitt in die Geschichte der zivilisierten Menschheit in der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts immer wieder und wiederum auch zu Ihnen hier gesprochen. Seit dieser Zeit kam allmählich herauf die neuere Färbung der Naturwissenschaft. Seit dieser Zeit kam aber auch herauf die neuere Färbung des Industrialismus. Naturwissenschaft und Industrialismus zusammen, die bedeuten dasjenige, was sich über die moderne Menschheit ausgegossen hat, und was der modernen Menschheit die besondere Richtung ihres Geistes gegeben hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p013"}],"english":["GA 296/1919-08-09/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":279,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7350,"original_word_count":7947,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. 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