{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now it is said: Yes, but one cannot remember it; and if a person does not have a memory of previous earthly lives, then he cannot have had any previous earthly lives. — But in this way one can also say: A person cannot calculate, one can prove that a person cannot calculate – and now someone introduces a small child of four years as proof and shows that it cannot calculate at all. He is a human being and yet cannot calculate! One will say: He will certainly learn to calculate. If one knows human nature, one knows that he will learn to calculate. — If someone today points out a person who cannot remember his earlier lives on earth, one must say: Yes, but nothing has been done in the past to help people remember. On the contrary, there are still so many stragglers from earlier times today who want to keep people ignorant, so that they know nothing of the spiritual, so that they do not know at all what they are supposed to remember in the next life on earth, so that they become quite confused, like the man with the shirt button. First, man must learn to think in life, so that he can remember later.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Wenn man die Menschennatur kennt, weiß man, daß es rechnen lernen wird. — Wenn heute einer einen Menschen aufzeigt, der sich nicht erinnern kann an seine früheren Erdenleben, so muß man ihm sagen: Ja, aber es ist früher auch nichts getan worden, daß die Menschen sich erinnern können. Im Gegenteil, es gibt heute noch so viele Nachzügler aus früheren Zeiten, die möchten die Leute dumm erhalten, daß sie gar nichts wissen vom Geistigen, so daß sie gar nicht wissen, was sie im nächsten Erdenleben erinnern sollen, daß sie ganz konfus werden, wie der mit dem Hemdknopf. Zuerst muß der Mensch im Leben denken lernen, woran er sich später erinnern soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/349/1923-04-18/p045"}],"english":["GA 349/1923-04-18/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":204,"en_words":211,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6917,"original_word_count":6912,"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/SOL2024/19230418p02.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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