{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 330/1919-04-28/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When I was speaking on this subject recently in a Swiss town, a very clever person said to me during the discussion – of course I recognize all clever objections, I am aware of how much can be objected to what I am proposing here; but it is based on reality, and therefore there is as much to object to as there can be objected to as a rule; the reason why what is proposed is practical is that so much can be objected to it and because the objections must be countered in a practical way, not with judgments. He said: Yes, you now want to define the state with its law and its justice, but justice must prevail in both intellectual and economic life! I replied with an image: I imagine a rural family, the man, the woman, the children, servants, maids and three cows. The cows give milk. The whole family needs milk. Is it therefore necessary, or even possible, that the whole family should also give milk? No, if the three cows give milk properly, the whole family will be supplied with milk, and it is not at all necessary for the others to give milk as well. So it is with the three members of the social organism. Each of the members supplies for the other members that which can be supplied to them precisely because in its emancipation it is placed on its healthy, essential foundation. This is what one has to consider above all in the face of these truly practical social proposals, drawn from reality.","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":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/330/1919-04-28/p023","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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Ich erwiderte ihm mit einem Bilde: Ich stelle mir vor eine ländliche Familie, den Mann, die Frau, die Kinder, Knechte, Mägde und drei Kühe. Die Kühe geben Milch. Die ganze Familie braucht Milch, ist es deshalb just notwendig oder auch nur möglich, daß die ganze Familie auch Milch gibt? Nein, wenn die drei Kühe richtig Milch geben, wird die ganze Familie mit Milch versorgt sein, und es ist gar nicht notwendig, daß die anderen auch Milch geben sollten. So ist es mit den drei Gliedern des sozialen Organismus. Jedes der Glieder liefert gerade dadurch für die anderen Glieder dasjenige, was ihnen geliefert werden kann, weil es in seiner Emanzipation auf seine gesunde, wesenhafte Grundlage gestellt wird. 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