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For much of what is thought and done to bring about the social structure, the social organization of human society today, resembles the efforts of that Goethean Wagner who wants to artificially create the homunculus in the laboratory. Today, people think they can concoct the social organism from some social materials and forces in an artificial way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Realistic Attempts to Solve the Social Questions on the Basis of a Spiritual-Scientific View of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-02-14","location":null,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/336/1919-02-14/p007","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 Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA336/English/SOL2024/19190214e01.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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