{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 319/1923-11-16/p049","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have now spoken of the fact that sensory observation can be further developed and modified by something higher. Yesterday I indicated that there are methods by which one can do this and I pointed to writings by which one can arrive at such methods. This, however, constitutes something for the whole so-called system of proof, which I can only make clear by means of a comparison: when we are here on earth, we talk about the fact that something that I place in the air is heavy and falls down, falls to the ground, then it has a basis. So we have to say that for a certain way of thinking that is based on sensual empirical evidence. If you go further, you come to the point – and I happened to experience this once as a boy, when someone told me – that if the earth were floating, it would actually have to fall down. This mutual support and bearing of the cosmic bodies and cosmic spaces is the image for what underlies such a science as I have meant today. The whole thing bears and supports each other. We are dealing here with a completely different area. Of course, you will not be able to support yourself very well if I can only select a few things from something as detailed as medicine in two hours in order to give you an idea of the perspectives. You have to bear in mind that the desirable could only come about if you now had four years of faculty study, built on the aspects that I discussed today. If one started from the medical preparatory studies with the assumption that there is a real, spirit-permeated natural science, and if a physiology were built up in the same way, passing into histology and into pathology-clinical, then, however, because things would approach people in the appropriate detailed way, we would find them just as plausible as the medical system can be plausible today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Sixth Lecture","site_heading":"The Three-System Human Organism and Therapeutic Remedies","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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Wenn man nun weitergeht, kommt man dazu — und das habe ich gerade zufällig einmal erlebt als Bube, daß mir das jemand sagte -: Wenn die Erde schwebt, müßte sie eigentlich herunterfallen. Dieses sich gegenseitige Tragen und Stützen der Weltenkörper und Weltenräume, das ist das Bild für dasjenige, was einer solchen Wissenschaft zugrundeliegt, wie ich sie heute gemeint habe. Da trägt sich das Ganze gegenseitig und stützt sich gegenseitig. Da ist man eben in einem ganz anderen Gebiet darinnen. Selbstverständlich werden Sie nicht sehr gut sich stützen können, wenn ich aus so etwas, was so ausführlich ist wie die Medizin, nur in zwei Stunden einiges herauswählen kann, um Perspektiven zu geben. Man muß dabei denken, daß das Wünschenswerte nur eintreten könnte, wenn man nun vier Jahre Fakultätsstudium, aufgebaut auf den Gesichtspunkten, die ich heute auseinandersetzte, haben würde. Wenn man von den medizinischen Vorbereitungsstudien so ausgehen würde, daß eine wirkliche, geistdurchdrungene Naturwissenschaft da ist, wenn eine ebensolche Physiologie aufgebaut würde, übergehend in Histologie, bis ins Pathologisch-Klinische. Dann würden wir aber, weil die Dinge in der entsprechenden ausführlichen Weise an die Menschen herankommen würden, sie ebenso plausibel finden, wie heute das medizinische System plausibel werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/319/1923-11-16/p049"}],"english":["GA 319/1923-11-16/p049"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":332,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11460,"original_word_count":10832,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Anthroposophical Medical Theory and Human Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA319/English/SOL2024/19231116m01.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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