{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 334/1920-03-18/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Until a sufficiently large number of people energetically demand what is necessary for a new beginning, it will not come of its own accord from some corner. Today's development of humanity is predisposed to demand the great goals in life out of will, out of conscious will. We have pursued that policy long enough, which always looks diplomatically at what is there and according to which one says: it will work out again. Today people see how things get worse every day; every day they believe that what has just happened will not happen again. They have not the slightest sense that in decline the power of the rising must be recognized. And so, as in the art of education, we must also look for the forces that can lead to the new building in the life of the nation. There too, only those forces can arise that come from the spirit, from the knowledge of the spirit, from the contemplation of the spirit. How those two soul elements that I have pointed out stand in relation to each other in our social life and in the life of our nation today! Abstract thinking, which every human being actually has – it is quite irrelevant whether one has outgrown the cobbler's workshop, is the son of the cobbler or [gap], if one has brought it to a level of thinking. This thinking is independent of the personal; from this thinking one has one's standpoint. But these standpoints are actually not necessary at all, for every person actually has the right to his own standpoint, and he could actually go through the world as a loner with this standpoint. There is no need to live together at all if everyone has “their standpoint” and no one has anything to say to the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Man hat nicht den geringsten Sinn dafür, daß erkannt werden muß im Niedergange die Kraft des Aufganges. Und so wird man, wie in der Erziehungskunst, auch im Volksleben suchen müssen selbst diejenigen Kräfte, die zum Neuaufbau führen können. Es können auch da nur jene Kräfte sein, welche da kommen aus dem Geiste, aus der Erkenntnis des Geistes, aus dem Anschauen des Geistes. Wie stehen sich doch jene zwei Seelenelemente in unserem sozialen Leben, in unserem Volksleben heute gegenüber, auf die ich hingedeutet habe! Das abstrakte Denken, das eigentlich jeder Mensch hat — es ist ja ganz gleichgültig, ob man herausgewachsen ist aus der Schusterwerkstätte, der Sohn des Schusters ist oder [Lücke], wenn man es bis zu einer Stufe des Denkens gebracht hat. Dieses Denken, es ist unabhängig vom Persönlichen, von diesem Denken aus hat man seinen Standpunkt. Aber diese Standpunkte sind ja alle eigentlich nicht notwendig, denn jeder Mensch hat eigentlich das Recht für seinen eigenen Standpunkt, und er könnte eigentlich mit diesem Standpunkt als ein Einsamer durch die Welt ziehen. Man braucht gar nicht miteinander zu leben, wenn jeder «seinen Standpunkt» hat, wenn keiner dem anderen etwas zu sagen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/334/1920-03-18/p024"}],"english":["GA 334/1920-03-18/p024"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9598,"original_word_count":9332,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200318s01.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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