{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 303/1922-01-05/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is also very interesting to look at these things from a statistical point of view. In doing so, I am being neither pedantic nor unscrupulous, but my findings are the results of deliberate investigation. If I were to write a book about education in German, the word *Freiheit* would appear again and again in certain chapters. To find out whether the corresponding word *freedom* could be also used in an English book on education, I carefully looked through the likely chapters of such a book, and discovered that the word *freedom* did not appear at all, not once. This is the sort of thing for which we should develop a fine perception, because it is the very thing we need for greater world understanding. And it should be considered during the school years as well. I am keenly aware of this when writing books, as I mentioned. Consequently I am very cautious in the choice of certain words. If, for example, I use the German word *Natur* in various sentences, I can be certain that it will be translated as the word *nature* in English. There is no doubt at all that *Natur* would be translated as *nature*. And yet, the English word *nature* would awaken a very different concept than would the German word *Natur*. This is why, when anticipating translations, I have paraphrased certain words in some of my writings. I do this to avoid the wrong interpretation of what I want to say. Of course, there have been numerous times when I used the word *Natur*, but when it was important to match the German concept with a foreign one, I paraphrased *Natur* with “the sensory world” ( *die sinnliche Welt*), especially if the book was likely to be translated into Western languages. To me, “the sensory world” seems to match, more or less, the concept of *Natur* as used in German. Obviously, I expected *sinnliche Welt* to be translated as nature in English, only to find that, again, it was translated literally into “the sensory world.” It really is very important to be aware of the living genius of language, especially where an artistic treatment of language is concerned.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. 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