{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 315/1921-04-14/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The movement of the will and the movement of the intellect, you see, constitute two sorts of evolution of power which proceed in man at different velocities. Man's intellect develops quickly in our age, volition slowly, so that as part of the whole evolution of mankind we have already surpassed our will with our intellect. In our civilization it is generally manifest that the evolution of the intellect has overtaken the evolution of the will. The people of today are intensely intellectual, which precisely does not imply that they can do much with their intellect; they are strongly intellectual, but they hardly know what to do with their intellect; for that reason they know so little intellectually. But what they do know intellectually they treat in such a manner as though within it they could function with a certain certainty. Will develops slowly. And to practise eurythmy is, apart from everything else, an attempt to bring the will back into the whole evolution of mankind again. If eurythmy is to appear as a therapy the following must be pointed out: It must be said that the over-development of the intellect expresses itself particularly in the organic side effects of the evolution of speech as well. Our speech development today in our modern civilization is actually already something which is becoming inhuman through its superhuman qualities insofar as we learn languages today in such a manner that we have so little living feeling left for what lies in the words. The words are actually only signs. What sort of feeling do people still have for that which lies in words? I would like to know how many people go through the world and become aware in the course of learning the German language for example, that the rounded form which I have just drawn is expressed in the word “Kopf” (Head), which has a connection with “Kohl” (cabbage), and for which reason one also says “Kohlkopf” (cabbagehead), which is actually only a repetition; the rounding is metamorphosed according to the situation. That is what is expressed here. In the Romance languages, “testa, testieren”, is expressed more what comes from within, the working of the soul through the head. People have no more feeling for the distinctions within language; language has become abstract. When you walk, you walk with you feet. Why do we say “Füsse” (feet)? You see, that is a metamorphosis of the word “Furche” (furrow) which came about because it was seen that one traces something like a furrow when one walks. The pictorial element in language has been completely lost; if one wishes to bring this pictorial element back into language, then one must turn to eurythmy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Consonantal Forms and Therapeutic Eurythmic Movement","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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Sie sind eben sehr stark intellektuell, aber sie wissen nicht viel damit anzufangen; daher wissen sie intellektuell so wenig. Aber dasjenige, was sie intellektuell wissen, das fassen sie so auf, als ob sie in ihm mit einer gewissen Sicherheit wirken. Der Wille entwickelt sich langsam. Und Eurythmisieren ist zunächst auch, abgesehen von allem übrigen, ein Versuch, den Willen wiederum hereinzubringen in die ganze Menschheitsentwickelung. Und tritt dann die Eurythmie therapeutisch auf, so müssen wir doch auf das Folgende eben hinweisen. Wir müssen sagen: Die Überentwickelung des Intellekts, sie drückt sich auch aus besonders in den organischen Begleiterscheinungen der Sprachentwickelung. Unsere Sprachentwickelung, die ist eigentlich heute schon in unserer modernen Zivilisation etwas, was durch seine Übermenschlichkeit unmenschlich wird, indem wir heute Sprachen lernen so, daß wir so wenig noch ein Gefühl haben davon, ein lebendiges Gefühl haben davon, was in den Worten drinnen liegt. Es sind ja die Worte eigentlich nur Zeichen. Was haben die Menschen noch für ein Gefühl, was in dem Worte drinnen liegt? Ich möchte wissen, wie viele Menschen gehen durch die Welt und werden aufmerksam darauf, daß zum Beispiel speziell beim Erlernen der deutschen Sprache die Form der Rundung, des Rundens, was ich ja gerade aufgezeichnet habe, ist in dem Worte «Kopf», was mit Kohl zusammenhängt, daher man auch Kohlkopf sagt, was eigentlich nur eine Retuschierung ist; man metamorphosiert im Zusammenhange dieses Runden. Das ist da ausgedrückt. In romanischen Sprachen - testa, testieren -, da drückt sich das aus mehr von innen heraus, das seelische Wirken durch den Kopf. Dieser Unterschied dessen, was in der Sprache drinnenliegt, die Leute haben kein Gefühl mehr davon, die Sprache ist abstrakt geworden. Wenn Sie gehen, gehen Sie mit den Füßen. Warum sagen wir «Füße»? Ja, sehen Sie, das ist eine Metamorphose des Wortes «Furche», und ist entstanden dadurch, daß man angeschaut hat, daß man also eine Furche andeutet, indem man geht. Es ist durchaus verloren worden das Bildhafte, das in der Sprache liegt; und wenn man will dieses Bildhafte wieder hineinbringen in die Sprache, dann muß man eben zur Eurythmie greifen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":427,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/315/1921-04-14/p031"}],"english":["GA 315/1921-04-14/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":427,"en_words":449,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4975,"original_word_count":5067,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Kristina Krohn with Anthony Degenaar","identified_edition":"RSP1983","book_title":"Curative Eurythmy","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA315/English/RSP1983/19210414p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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