{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What have we experienced in the spiritual development of recent times? Oh, how fundamentally alien to real life is everything that is cultivated within the walls of the scientific establishment. And what do we therefore lack in the field of economic life everywhere? Today, knowledgeable experts in this economic life admit that we lack the most important thing in economic life, that we lack, for example, a real science of industry. Economic life could not lag behind; it had to keep pace with the course of more recent development. It was impossible for the German iron industry, for example, to continue producing only 799,000 tons of pig iron, as it did in the early 1860s. No, by the end of the 1880s, it was necessary to produce not 799,000 tons of pig iron, but 4,500,000 tons. What is remarkable about this production of pig iron? That these 7,990,000 tons of pig iron were produced at the beginning of the 1860s by just over 20,000 workers, and, curiously, that the 45,000,000 tons in the 1880s were produced by just over 20,000 workers as well. What does that mean? It means that technical progress has advanced so far and economic life has progressed so much that the same number of workers were able to extract 45,000,000 tons of pig iron at the end of the 1980s, whereas only 7,990,000 tons were extracted at the beginning of the 1960s. But then one wonders: Has this perfection of technology been followed by perfection in other social fields? No. And today, insightful experts readily admit that we lack a science that is suitable, for example, to help production in the sense of increased consumption according to the demands of the present, so that the factories are built in the right place everywhere, that the factories are properly accompanied by other, supporting factories in the neighborhood. Whoever today observes the economic chaos that has emerged due to the lack of an industrial science in this regard can see the real reasons, the truly practical reasons for today's social movement. For a healthy spiritual life, a spiritual life that must not be dependent in a comfortable way, must not be supported by the state and its auxiliaries, but must prove its ability and strength for the social order anew every day, such a spiritual life, that is a healthy soil for all spirituality. And just as you say to yourself when you see a bad piece of wheat sprouting, there is imperfect soil underneath —, so you should say to yourself today: the fact that we have no industrial science, that we do not have what we need like bread itself for the recovery of our economic life is due to the fact that the soil in which the practical sciences should flourish is unhealthy, that the spiritual life does not produce those people who are the right leaders of capitalist administration, those people who can really find trust in the broad masses of those who have to work.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. The Key Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Life In the Present and the Future","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-04-28","location":null,"word_count":502,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-04-28/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.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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Es war unmöglich, daß man zum Beispiel in Deutschland dabei blieb, für die deutsche Eisenindustrie nur 799000 Tonnen Roheisen zutage zu fördern, wiemanesin den ersten sechziger Jahren des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts getan hat. Nein, es war notwendig, schon Ende der achtziger Jahre nicht 799 000 Tonnen Roheisen zutage zu fördern, sondern 4500000 Tonnen. Was ist das Bemerkenswerte an dieser Roheisengewinnung? Daß diese 799000 Tonnen Roheisen im Beginn der sechziger Jahre des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts von etwas mehr als 20000 Arbeitern zutage gefördert worden sind und merkwürdigerweise die 4500000 Tonnen in den achtziger Jahren von auch nur wenig mehr als 20000 Arbeitern zutage gefördert wurden. Was heißt das? Das heißt: So sind die technischen Vervollkommnungen fortgeschritten, so drängte das Wirtschaftsleben zum Fortschritt, daß von derselben Anzahl Arbeiter Ende der achtziger Jahre 4500000 Tonnen Roheisen zutage gefördert werden konnten, von denen anfangs der sechziger Jahre nur 799000 Tonnen gefördert worden sind. Da fragt man sich aber dann: Ist gefolgt in der richtigen Weise dieser Vervollkommnung der Technik die Vervollkommnung auf anderen sozialen Gebieten? Nein. Und einsichtige Kenner gestehen es heute ohne weiteres, daß uns fehlt eine Wissenschaft, welche zum Beispiel geeignet ist, nach den Anforderungen der Gegenwart der Produktion im Sinne der gesteigerten Konsumtion so zu helfen, daß die Betriebe überall am richtigen Ort angelegt werden, daß die Betriebe von anderen, sie unterstützenden Betrieben in der Nachbarschaft richtig begleitet werden. Wer heute verfolgt, was wegen des Mangels einer Industriewissenschaft in dieser Beziehung an wirtschaftlichem Chaos zutage gefördert worden ist, der sieht erst hinein in die wahren Gründe, in die wahrhaft praktischen Gründe für die heutige soziale Bewegung. Denn ein gesundes Geistesleben, ein Geistesleben, das nicht in bequemer Art abhängig sein darf, sich stützen lassen darf vom Staate und seinen Hilfskräften, sondern an jedem Tage aufs neue zu beweisen hat seine Fähigkeit, seine Kraft für die soziale Ordnung, ein solches Geistesleben, das ist ein gesunder Boden für alle Geistigkeit. Und geradeso wie Sie sich sagen, wenn Sie einen schlechten Weizen aufsprießen sehen, da ist ein unvollkommener Boden darunter —, so müßten Sie sich heute sagen: Daß wir keine Industriewissenschaft haben, daß wir dasjenige nicht haben, was wir wie das Brot selber brauchen zur Gesundung unseres Wirtschaftslebens, das rührt davon her, daß der Boden, auf dem die praktischen Wissenschaften gedeihen sollten, ungesund ist, daß das Geistesleben nicht aufsprießen läßt diejenigen Menschen, die die richtigen Leiter der kapitalistischen Verwaltung sind, diejenigen Menschen, die nun wirklich Vertrauen finden können in der breiten Masse derer, die arbeiten müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":491,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-04-28/p015"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-04-28/p015"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":491,"en_words":502,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9703,"original_word_count":9371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Reorganization of the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA330/English/SOL2024/19190428p02.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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