{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 348/1922-12-30/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It would be extraordinarily interesting, for example, to consider the following. You see, there were a great many philosophers in England—Hobbes, Bacon, Locke, Hume. These philosophers, even including John Stuart Mill, led essentially to the great rise of materialism. These philosophers all had such heavy thoughts that they could not penetrate the spiritual with their thoughts. They clung to matter with their thoughts. It would be extraordinarily interesting to examine the digestions of all these philosophers, these many philosophers. I am convinced they all suffered from constipation! Starting with Hobbes in the seventeenth century, and proceeding all the way into the nineteenth, this whole philosophy that brought us materialism was actually caused by the constipation of individual philosophers! This materialism could have been prevented—what I say now is not in earnest, I only wish to make a joke!—if one had given Hobbes, Bacon, Locke, and the others regular laxatives in their youth. Then all this materialism most likely would not have arisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Sehen Sie, in England hat es eine ganze Reihe von Philosophen gegeben, Hobbes, Bacon, Locke, Hume. Diese Philosophen, bis herauf zu John Stuart Mill, haben eigentlich den Anlaß gegeben, daß der Materialismus so sehr grassiert, so ganz groß geworden ist. Diese Philosophen haben alle solche schweren Gedanken gehabt. Sie konnten nicht mit ihren Gedanken in das Geistige eindringen. Sie hafteten mit ihren Gedanken am Stoffe. Nun würde ich es außerordentlich interessant finden, wenn man einmal untersuchen würde, was alle diese Philosophen, diese ganze Reihe von Philosophen, für eine Verdauung gehabt haben. Ich bin nämlich überzeugt davon, die litten allean Verstopfung! Und diese ganze Philosophie, von Hobbes, vom 17. Jahrhundert an bis ins 19. Jahrhundert hinein, die uns den Materialismus gebracht hat, die kommt eigentlich von der Verstopfung einzelner Philosophen! Und man hätte diesen Materialismus verhüten können - ich sage nicht, daß das Ernst ist, was ich jetzt sage, ich will nur einen Spaß machen -, aber man hätte ihn verhindern können, wenn man Hobbes, Bacon, Locke und anderen in der Jugend möglichst viel Abführmittel eingeführt hätte. Dann wäre dieser ganze Materialismus wahrscheinlich gar nicht gekommen!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1922-12-30/p031"}],"english":["GA 348/1922-12-30/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":195,"en_words":162,"ratio":0.83,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.84,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. 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