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My friends have put a great deal of effort into bringing to the relevant authorities, who were still appointed at the time and have now sunk into the abyss, what has been brought forth from the necessary conditions for the development of humanity in the present and near future. And I said to some at the time: What is expressed in this draft - at that time it was mainly formulated for foreign policy - is what has been deduced from the conditions in Central and Eastern Europe and the civilized world in general through decades of dedicated work, and what is to be realized in the next ten, fifteen, twenty years. And it has been said: You now have a choice. Either you accept reason and tell humanity that you want to realize this, or you face cataclysms and revolutions. Because what you do not want to realize through reason is what leads to revolution. This may be said today by someone who, before this war catastrophe, spoke of a social ulceration, of a social cancer. At the time, I was considered a fantasist, and those who spoke of a general relaxation shortly before the slaughter began were considered practical people.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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Viel Mühe haben sich meine Freunde gegeben, an die betreffenden Stellen, die dazumal noch berufen waren und heute in den Abgrund versunken sind, dasjenige heranzubringen, was hervorgeholt ist aus den notwendigen Menschheitsentwickelungsbedingungen der Gegenwart und nächsten Zukunft. Und gesagt habe ich zu manchen in der damaligen Zeit: Was in diesem Entwurfe ausgesprochen wird — er war dazumal hauptsächlich für die auswärtige Politik formuliert -—, das ist dasjenige, was in hingebungsvoller Arbeit seit Jahrzehnten den Verhältnissen von Mittel- und Osteuropa und der zivilisierten Welt überhaupt abgelauscht ist, was sich realisieren will in den nächsten zehn, fünfzehn, zwanzig Jahren. Und gesagt wurde: Sie haben jetzt die Wahl, entweder Vernunft anzunehmen und der Menschheit zu sagen, daß Sie das realisieren wollen, oder Sie stehen vor Kataklysmen und Revolutionen. Denn was man nicht durch Vernunft realisieren will, das erst führt zur Revolution. Das darf heute jemand sagen, der vor dieser Kriegskatastrophe als von einer sozialen Geschwürbildung, von einer sozialen Krebskrankheit gesprochen hat. Damit wurde man damals als Phantast angesehen, und als Praktiker galten diejenigen, die, kurz bevor das Schlachten begann, von einer allgemeinen Entspannung sprachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/330/1919-04-28/p025"}],"english":["GA 330/1919-04-28/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":312,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","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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