{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 339/1921-10-14/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One day, I was invited by a number of ladies in Berlin, who had heard lectures of mine in an institute, to give a lecture in the private apartment of one of these ladies. The whole arrangement was really for the purpose of the ladies' working against a certain relatively harmless attitude of their husbands. You see, the ladies arrived around twelve o'clock noon in the institute where I gave my lectures. When such a day recurred—I think it was once a week—the husbands said, “There you go again into your crazy institute today; then the soup will be bad again, or something else won't be in its usual order!”—So the ladies wanted me to give a lecture on Goethe's *Faust*—this was selected as the subject—the husbands were also invited. Now I gave the lecture on Goethe's *Faust* before the ladies and gentlemen. The men were a bit perplexed afterwards and said, “Why yes, but Goethe's *Faust* is a science; Goethe's *Faust* is not art. Art, well that's Blumenthal!”[^1]—I am quoting word for word—“and there one doesn't have to make such an effort. After working so hard in our professional life, who wants to exert an effort in our leisure time!” You see, what has become a substitute for enthusiasm for freedom in cultural life confronts us in the social life as a mere desire to be lightly entertained.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Speaking to Different Peoples: Adapting Lectures on Social Threefolding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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