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First of all, it would perhaps require not one but a whole series of personalities who have the dedicated spirit of research for everything that makes up the nature, character and development of a people, such as Jakob Grimm had, who mainly directed his studies to the two expressions of the folk soul, the myth, the saga and the language. But the same spirit should spread to many other expressions of the folk soul and should be able to find laws about this folk soul that can compare with some of the wonderful laws about language that the German researcher Jakob Grimm, for example, has found.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. The Development of the German Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-04-13","location":null,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p003","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":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.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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Dasjenige, was ich skizzenhaft andeuten will mit Bezug auf das Wesen und die Entwickelung der deutschen Volksseele, könnte der Teil, sagen wir, ein Kapitel einer Wissenschaft sein, die es aber heute noch nicht gibt, einer Wissenschaft, die einem vorschweben kann als ein hohes Ideal. Aber was müßte alles zusammenarbeiten, um eine solche Wissenschaft wirklich zustande zu bringen! Erstens müßte vielleicht nicht eine, sondern eine Reihe von Persönlichkeiten müßte zusammenwirken, die den hingebungsvollen Forschersinn für alles, was Volkswesen, Volksart, Volksentwickelung ausmacht, hat, den etwa Jakob Grimm gehabt hat, der ja seine Studien auf die beiden Äußerungen der Volksseele, die Mythe, die Sage und die Sprache, hauptsächlich gelenkt hat. Allein, derselbe Geist müßte sich verbreiten über viele andere Äußerungen des Volksseelenwesens und müßte in der Lage sein, Gesetze über dieses Volksseelenwesen zu finden, welche sich mit einigen der so wunderbaren Gesetze vergleichen können, die über die Sprache zum Beispiel der deutsche ausgezeichnete Forscher Jakob Grimm gefunden hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p003"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":243,"en_words":255,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12620,"original_word_count":11914,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.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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