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That is why people who eat too many potatoes and therefore have to work their heads terribly to process the potato fermentation become weak-headed. In particular, the middle sections of the brain become weak; only the frontal sections of the brain, which do not have to work as hard to prevent potato fermentation, remain. And so it is precisely because of the fact that potato food has become widespread in recent times that materialism has come about, because it is produced in the forebrain.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Ich habe Ihnen damals schon gesagt: Wenn der Mensch zuviel Kartoffeln ißt, so muß sein Kopf furchtbar viel arbeiten; natürlich, weil der Kopf die Gärung verhindern muß. Daher werden die Menschen, die übermäßig Kartoffeln essen und daher ihren Kopf zur Verarbeitung der Kartoffelgärung furchtbar anstrengen müssen, kopfschwach. Namentlich die mittleren Partien des Hirns werden schwach; es bleiben nur die vorderen Partien des Hirns, die sich wenig anstrengen beim Verhindern der Kartoffelgärung. Und so ist gerade dadurch, daß die Kartoffelnahrung in der neueren Zeit vielfach verbreitet worden ist, der Materialismus gekommen, weil der im Vorderhirn erzeugt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-01-23/p025"}],"english":["GA 352/1924-01-23/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":191,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6328,"original_word_count":6181,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240123p02.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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