{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is so strange: one believes that materialism is a logical thing. In a way, materialism in modern times is nothing more than the result of eating potatoes! Well, it's not true, people don't like to think that they should live on potatoes alone; but then they like materialism. So they are actually in a contradiction. If you really wanted to be a materialist, you would actually have to advise spreading potato food everywhere, because it would be the best way to become convinced of materialism, wouldn't it? That is something that most people don't succeed at. But if the materialistic monists wanted to fight effectively, they would actually have to ensure that other foods are replaced by potato foods as much as possible. Then the Monist League would achieve quite tremendous successes. If it did not work very quickly, it could work best over a period of several decades, and it would have the best possible results if it tried to influence people to eat only potatoes. But the people on whom it wanted to exert an influence would have a few tricks up their sleeves to get around its efforts, so it would not have the best possible success!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Nutrition","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-01-23","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-01-23/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Wenn aber die materialistischen Monisten, der Monistenbund so recht wirksam kämpfen wollte, so müßte er eigentlich dafür sorgen, daß die anderen Nahrungsmittel möglichst durch Kartoffelnahrung ersetzt werden. Dann würde der Monistenbund ganz furchtbare Erfolge verzeichnen. Wenn auch nicht ganz schnell, so doch im Laufe von einigen Jahrzehnten, könnte der Monistenbund am besten wirken, wenn er auf die Kartoffelnahrung einwirken wollte, Nur würden ihm schon die Leute, auf die er wirken wollte durch die Kartoffelnahrung, einiges auswischen; da könnte er also nicht die besten Erfolge haben!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-01-23/p026"}],"english":["GA 352/1924-01-23/p026"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":185,"en_words":201,"ratio":1.09,"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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