{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-04/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Gentlemen! Science only wants to accept what can be seen with the eyes and grasped with the hands. It takes a special ability to also research that which cannot be seen with the eyes and grasped with the hands, and one does not want to acquire this ability. Medieval religious science said that there was a science for everything earthly and a doctrine of faith, and that is what is written in the scriptures. And even today people still hold this point of view. People no longer dare to have a science that cannot be grasped with hands, because they have not yet progressed beyond a science that can be grasped with hands. I would like to explain to you a little what I have told you, by means of something that is admittedly old for today's time; but with regard to these things, the decisive event occurred precisely in the last third of the 19th century. I need only read you the last sentences of a book, and you will immediately see how today's science is oriented in this regard. It says: Beyond the limits of our knowledge, there is no path. In the pathless... (space in the transcript) we can only let ourselves be carried by the inexhaustible hope in a mystically sweet half-slumber, on the wings of fantasy - and so on.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Organization of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-04","location":null,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-04/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230404p02.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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Wissenschaft will nur dasjenige gelten lassen, was man mit Augen sehen, mit Händen greifen kann. Es gehört eine besondere Fähigkeit dazu, auch das zu erforschen, was man nicht mit Augen sehen, mit Händen greifen kann, und diese Fähigkeit will man sich nicht erwerben. Die mittelalterliche Glaubenswissenschaft hat gesagt, man habe eine Wissenschaft für alles, was irdisch ist, und eine Glaubenslehre, und das ist das, was in der Schrift steht. Und noch heute stehen die Menschen auf diesem Standpunkt. Die Menschen wollen sich nicht mehr getrauen, eine Wissenschaft zu haben, die sich nicht mit Händen greifen läßt, weil sie eigentlich über eine Wissenschaft, die sich mit Händen greifen läßt, noch nicht hinausgekommen sind. Ich möchte Ihnen das, was ich Ihnen gesagt habe, ein bißchen erklären durch etwas, das ja für die heutige Zeit schon alt ist; aber in bezug auf diese Dinge ist gerade im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts das Ausschlaggebende geschehen. Ich brauche Ihnen nur die letzten Sätze eines Buches vorzulesen, so werden Sie gleich sehen, wie die heutige Wissenschaft gesinnt ist in dieser Beziehung. Sie sagt: Über die Grenzen unseres Erkennens hinaus führt uns kein Weg. In die pfadlose... (Lücke in der Nachschrift) können wir uns nur von der unerschöpflichen Hoffnung tragen lassen in mystisch süßem Halbschlummer, auf den Fittichen der Phantasie - und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/349/1923-04-04/p003"}],"english":["GA 349/1923-04-04/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":225,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6563,"original_word_count":6482,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230404p02.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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