{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You know that someone who speaks in terms of spiritual science, as it is meant here, does not speak of the national soul in the sense that one so often speaks of the national soul when one is an abstract thinker or a more or less mechanistically thinking scientist, but that such a spiritual researcher speaks of the national soul as something that really exists, just as the individual human being exists within the physical world. Naturally, in today's lecture I cannot repeat all that I have been saying on this subject for years. But one need only refer to the writings often quoted here to find so-called proofs of how justified it is, on the basis of spiritual scientific research, to speak of such higher souls that have not descended to the physical body, as is to be done here with the folk soul. But if one wants to speak about the folk soul in the spiritual-scientific sense, one must first consider certain things that relate to the individual soul of man. For, in the first place, we have before us the working of the folk soul in such a way that the working of the individual human souls, the nature of the individual human souls, so to speak, flows out, forces its way out of what is the folk soul. Now there are certain things in life, especially in the life of the soul – but this life of the soul is, of course, intimately connected with the physical life between birth and death – that come into consideration for spiritual research in a completely different sense than they do for what is often called natural science today, or at least for that within which natural science is so often limited today.","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":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p007","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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Aber man braucht sich ja nur aus den hier oft angeführten Schriften die sogenannten Beweise dafür zu holen, wie berechtigt es ist, aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung heraus, wirklich von solchen höheren, nicht bis zur physischen Verleiblichung heruntergestiegenen Seelen zu sprechen, wie das hier von der Volksseele geschehen soll. Will man aber im geisteswissenschaftlichen Sinne über die Volksseele sprechen, muß man zunächst gewisse Dinge ins Auge fassen, welche sich auf die einzelne Seele des Menschen beziehen. Denn zunächst haben wir ja das Wirken der Volksseele so vor uns, daß das Wirken der einzelnen Menschenseelen, die Artung der einzelnen Menschenseelen gewissermaßen herausströmt, herauskraftet aus dem, was Volksseele ist. Nun gibt es gewisse Dinge, welche im Leben, namentlich im seelischen Leben — aber dieses seelische Leben ist ja mit dem physischen Leben zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode innig verknüpft — für die Geistesforschung in einem ganz anderen Sinne noch in Betracht kommen, als sie in Betracht kommen für dasjenige, was man heute oftmals Naturwissenschaft nennt, oder wenigstens für dasjenige, innerhalb dessen man Naturwissenschaft heute so häufig begrenzt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p007"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p007"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":294,"ratio":1.13,"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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