{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now look at the way in which the soul of the nation can be recognized in the human being as a whole from the spiritual-scientific point of view, that is to say, if we approach the matter with the knowledge that I have often presented here as a spiritual-scientific method, we find that the individual national souls differ considerably in character. Now, of course, when speaking of the soul of a nation, it must be borne in mind that, when we use spiritual scientific concepts, we have something flexible and pliable, I would say in color effects, while we have firm contours in everything that is in the physical world. So, of course, it is very easy to object to what I am about to say. But if we had a few days instead of an hour or an hour and a half, we could discuss all these objections here. Of course, it is not at all a matter of criticizing any national soul, of presenting any national soul as if it had a different value from any other national soul, but of objective characteristics. What I am about to say about the individual national souls does not imply that one is of greater or less value than another, but is considered objectively.","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":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p024","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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Nun muß natürlich gerade dann, wenn von Volksseele gesprochen wird, ganz fest ins Auge gefaßt werden - ich wiederhole es nicht unabsichtlich -, daß wir ja mit den geisteswissenschaftlichen Begriffen etwas Biegsames, Schmiegsames, ich möchte sagen, in Farbenwirkung haben, während wir feste Konturen bei alle dem haben, was in der physischen Welt ist, so daß selbstverständlich sehr leicht Einwände gemacht werden können gegen dasjenige, was ich jetzt sagen werde. Aber wenn wir statt einer oder anderthalb Stunden ein paar Tage hätten, so könnten wir uns ja hier über alle diese Einwände verständigen. Selbstverständlich handelt es sich hier durchaus nicht darum, irgendeine Volksseele zu kritisieren, irgendeine Volksseele so darzustellen, als ob sie einen anderen Wert hätte als eine andere Volksseele, sondern um objektive Charakteristik handelt es sich. Dadurch, daß manches, was ich jetzt zu sagen habe über die einzelnen Volksseelen, gesagt wird, wird der einen oder anderen noch nicht ein größerer oder geringerer Wert beigelegt, sondern es wird objektiv betrachtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p024"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p024"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":209,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.03,"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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