XII. World-Purpose and Life-Purpose (The Destiny Of Man)

GA 4/l12/p005 · GPP1916 LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.

Ideas are realized only by human agents. Consequently, it is illegitimate to speak of the embodiment of ideas by history. All such statements as “history is the evolution of man towards freedom” or “the realization of the moral world-order,” etc., are, from a Monistic point of view, untenable.

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