{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Philipp Mainländer looked around him, at what outer science, what our time was able to tell him from its materialistic viewpoint, and there he could only find a world filled with evil and mankind involved in wickedness. He could not deny it, since the pressure of this new world view was so strong that it hindered the soul from looking up to a spiritual world. So let us not try and conceal from ourselves here: why do so few people come to spiritual science? That is because, since the pressure of the prejudice of materialism, or as it is called more nobly, of monism is so powerful, it darkens the soul and prevents its penetrating into the spirit world. If the soul is left independent and to itself and is not dulled by materialist prejudice, then it will surely come to spiritual science. But the pressure is large, and from our time on, one can say: it is connected to the epoch, in which one can represent spiritual science before humanity with a few perspectives, because the desire of souls has become so strong, that spiritual science must find an echo in souls. In the second and third thirds of the nineteenth century that echo was unable to be present. Then the pressure of materialism was so strong, that even a soul striving towards the spirit such as that of Philipp Mainländer was held back. And so he came to a unique view: to the view that nothing spiritual can be found in the current world. We have in Mainländer in the nineteenth century a spirit before us, who only did not make a major impression on his contemporaries, because the spirit of the nineteenth century, despite its major progress in material areas, was a superficial spirit. But what a soul must feel in the nineteenth century, that Mainländer felt, even when he stood alone, because in a certain way he felt a kind of spiritual impotence regarding the removal of that which must leave one dissatisfied with a materialistic or monistic world view. One does not need to pick up and read the somewhat thick volume of Mainländer's “Philosophy of Salvation,” but only the reasonably small booklet by Max Seiling, in order to make a judgement about what I am saying now.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wenn man die Seelen unabhängig sich selber überließe und nicht durch die materialistischen Vorurteile betäubte, so würden sie sicher zur Geisteswissenschaft kommen. Aber der Druck ist groß, und erst von unserer Zeit an kann man sagen: Es ist die Epoche herangerückt, in welcher man miteiniger Aussicht Geisteswissenschaft vor den Menschen vertreten kann, weil die Sehnsucht der Seelen so stark geworden ist, daß die Geisteswissenschaft ein Echo in den Seelen finden muß. In dem zweiten und dritten Drittel des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts konnte dieses Echo nicht vorhanden sein. Da war der Druck des Materialismus so stark, daß selbst eine so sehr zum Geiste hinstrebende Seele wie diejenige Philipp Mainländers niedergehalten wurde. Und da kam er denn zu einer eigenartigen Anschauung, zu der Anschauung: in der gegenwärtigen Welt finde man allerdings kein Geistiges. Wir haben in Mainländer im neunzehnten Jahrhundert einen Geist vor uns, der nur deshalb keinen großen Eindruck auf die Zeitgenossen gemacht hat, weil der Geist des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, trotz der großen Fortschritte auf materiellem Gebiete, ein oberflächlicher Geist war. Aber was die Seele im neunzehnten Jahrhundert fühlen mußte, das hat Mainländer, selbst wenn er allein stand, gefühlt, weil er gewissermaßen der Weise war gegenüber denjenigen, die sich wie in einer geistigen Ohnmacht über das hinwegsetzten, was die Seelen in einer materialistischen oder monistischen Weltanschauung unbefriedigt lassen muß. 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