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However, when such a thing occurs in an outstanding person, people who judge this outstanding spirit usually say: He has achieved great things, but later fell prey to this strange dream of repeated earthly lives, and one must give credit to the great Lessing, who was also capable of committing this strange error. - Thus, every small mind feels called upon to judge the great minds with their “grave errors.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-10-26","location":null,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1911-10-26/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19111026p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/61/1911-10-26/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1911-10-26/p011","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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