{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In short, those people who reject any possibility of soul-searching are in for a terrible embarrassment when faced with the greatest naturalists and the greatest historians, because if someone really takes science seriously, they have no choice but to extend this science to the soul. And for that you find opportunity everywhere. I have told you: you just have to observe. Now you cannot always foresee everything in everyday life, especially if you have not learned it first. But nature and sometimes humanity also do experiments for us that you should not artificially induce, but once they are made, you can study them. You can follow them, at least be inspired by them. Now there is an experiment that is actually important, characteristic, if one wants to accept something about the soul life of man. Everyone accepts the physical body, because otherwise they would all have to deny the human being. One does not argue about that. Everyone has one. Today, natural science says: the physical body is the only one, we have to explain everything according to the physical body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Aber die Natur und manchmal die Menschheit macht für uns selbst auch Experimente, die man gar nicht künstlich herbeiführen soll, aber wenn sie einmal gemacht sind, kann man sie studieren. Man kann sich darnach richten, kann sich wenigstens anregen lassen. Nun gibt es ein Experiment, das ist eigentlich wichtig, charakteristisch, wenn man etwas über das Seelenleben des Menschen gelten lassen will. Den physischen Leib, den lassen ja alle gelten, denn sonst müßten sie ja alle den Menschen ableugnen. Darüber streitet man nicht. Den hat jeder. 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