{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 297/1919-11-25/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we look at the human essence, the picture we can achieve through the scientific method has something fatalistic about it—it is something that fills only our intellect, but does not touch our will. If we use the scientific method in popular or scientific thinking about social life, then social life in a sense ebbs away, falls apart. Just as something finely ground runs through a sieve, true social life slips past our observation when we approach it only with modern scientific methods. We can see how strict causal scientific thinking fails the moment it is applied to the social realm or general external society. I want to give an example of this: There is perhaps no other book in a much-debated area that so beautifully develops exact scientific thinking as *Das Werden der Organismen, eine Widerlegung der Darwinschen Zufallstheorie* (The development of the organism—a rebuttal of the Darwinian theory of chance), by the well-known biologist, Oskar Hertwig. We can offer only the highest praise for this book’s attempt to characterize conventional scientific insights into the theory of evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Social Pedagogical Significance of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-11-25","location":null,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/297/1919-11-25/p055","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Robert F. 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Wir brauchen doch nur zu sehen, wie strenges, kausales naturwissenschaftliches Denken durchaus in dem Augenblicke versagt - ich will Ihnen ein empirisches Beispiel dafür anführen -, in dem es sich auf das soziale oder überhaupt auf das äußerliche gesellschaftliche Gebiet begibt. Es gibt vielleicht kein Buch, das auf einem viel angefochtenen Gebiete exaktes naturwissenschaftliches Denken so schön entwickelt wie das Buch des bekannten Biologen Oskar Hertwig «Das Werden der Organismen, eine Widerlegung der Darwinschen Zufallstheorie». 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