{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-02-28/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Human beings withdraw more and more into their inner being after the thirty-fifth year. No longer does a person have the longings and expectations of youth; he is instead capable of judgment, which one feels carries weight. At the same time certain abilities connected with the ether body, such as memory, begin to wane. About the fiftieth year the physical principle also begins to withdraw. More and more calcium is deposited while the tissue becomes slack. The withdrawing physical principle gradually unites with the etheric principle; what has gone into the Bones, muscles, blood and nerves begins to develop a life of its own. The human being becomes more and more spiritual. All this is certainly greatly enhanced and furthered if the early education was right, particularly as far as the astral body is concerned. Unless the astral body has experienced youthful joy and expectation, it will not now contain what it should be able to imprint on the denser ether body. If that is lacking, then the strong inner life described cannot unfold. We find instead what is called the “childishness of old age.” People who in their youth failed to be imbued with fresh vigorous forces will begin in old age to dry up. It is especially important to take note of this fact from the point of view of spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-02-28","location":null,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-02-28/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070228p01.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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Das physische Prinzip verbindet sich immer mehr mit dem Ätherprinzip, und das, was in Knochen, Muskeln, Blut und Nerven gegangen ist, fängt an, ein eigenes Leben zu entwickeln. Geistiger und immer geistiger wird der Mensch. Allerdings muß das dadurch gefördert werden, daß die frühere Erziehung in richtiger Weise gelenkt worden ist. Da muß der Astralleib auch etwas gehabt haben. Hat der Astralleib keine Jugendfreuden gehabt, dann ist das nicht in ihm, was sich jetzt in den dichteren Ätherleib einprägen soll. Und ist das nicht drinnen, dann kann jenes mächtige Innenleben sich nicht entwickeln, und es muß das eintreten, was man das Kindischwerden im Alter nennt. Jene, die in der Jugend nicht die frische Kraft bekommen haben, fangen an auszudorren. Es ist geradezu auch in geisteswissenschaftlicher Beziehung außerordentlich wichtig, das zu beobachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-02-28/p023"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-02-28/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":233,"en_words":224,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4366,"original_word_count":4806,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070228p01.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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