{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we study the nature of the Italian national soul from a spiritual scientific point of view, we find that such a national soul does not work as I have indicated in the life of an individual person, in that a later period of time imprints its characteristics on an earlier one; rather, such a national soul works on the human being from certain depths of the spiritual being throughout his or her life. Of course, this does not have to be the case. A person can leave one nation and be accepted into another. But the effects are the same, even if they are modified by the change. The folk soul is there, and what I have to describe is, in a sense, an encounter with the folk soul. A person who remains within his own nation throughout his life will experience this effect his whole life long. If you move from one nation to another, you will first experience the influence of one national soul and then that of the other. That is not the point now. It would be interesting to hint at the individual effects of changing the folk soul, but there is no time for that. Throughout human life, then, what comes from the folk soul can have the same effect as what comes from the stages of life in the periods of time indicated. And if we look at the Italian national soul, at its peculiarities, in the way it takes hold of people when it imprints its moods on the soul, imprints them on the whole person, we find, quite that there is a certain strong affinity between the forces of this Italian national soul and the individual forces that a person develops from the beginning of their twenties to their twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth year. So one can study the real inner essence of the Italian national soul if one can study the affinity, I would say the elective affinity, that exists between this national soul and what lives in the human soul between the twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth years. One must only add – but in such a way that this second element only hints at what is lived out in the soul from the age of thirty-five to the age of forty-two, forty-three, forty-four. But the stronger element of the Italian national soul is that which is related to the early twenties. It is only shaded by that which, as I have indicated, is being lived out in the later years. The power of the Italian national soul takes hold of the individual human being who places himself in it and allows the soul to be imbued with the mood of the national soul. It takes hold of him in the way that the years between the twentieth and the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth can be most powerfully and intensely seized by the soul and spirit.","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":485,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p025","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 die Volksseele ist da, und das, was ich zu schildern habe, ist gewissermaßen eine Begegnung mit der Volksseele. Wer während seines ganzen Lebens in seinem Volke stehenbleibt, hat eben diese Wirkung sein ganzes Leben hindurch. Wer von einem Volk in das andere geht, wird eben zuerst die Wirkung der einen Volksseele, nachher auch die der anderen Volksseele haben. Darauf kommt es jetzt nicht an. Es wäre interessant, die einzelnen Wirkungen des Wechselns der Volksseele anzudeuten, aber dazu ist nicht die Zeit. Durch das ganze menschliche Leben hindurch kann also das, was von der Volksseele herkommt, auf dieselbe Art wirken, wie früher auf das individuelle Leben in den angegebenen Zeiträumen das, was von den Lebensstufen herkommt. Und betrachtet man die italienische Volksseele, betrachtet man sie in ihren Eigentümlichkeiten so, wie sie den Menschen ergreift, wenn sie dasjenige, was sie als Stimmungsgehalt zu geben hat, in die Seele hineinprägt, in den ganzen Menschen hineinprägt, so findet man nun ganz merkwürdigerweise, daß eine gewisse starke Verwandtschaft besteht zwischen den Kräften dieser italienischen Volksseele und den individuellen Kräften, die der Mensch entwickelt eben vom Anfang der zwanziger Jahre bis zum siebenundzwanzigsten, achtundzwanzigsten, neunundzwanzigsten Jahre. Also man kann studieren die wirkliche innere Wesenheit der italienischen Volksseele, wenn man die Verwandtschaft, ich möchte sagen, die Wahlverwandtschaft studieren kann, die besteht zwischen dieser Volksseele und dem, was in der Menschenseele lebt zwischen dem zwanzigsten, einundzwanzigsten bis siebenundzwanzigsten, achtundzwanzigsten Jahre. Man muß nur wiederum hinzunehmen - aber so, daß dieses zweite Element nur anklingt — dasjenige, was so vom fünfunddreiRigsten bis zum zweiundvierzigsten, dreiundvierzigsten, vierundvierzigsten Jahre in der Seele sich auslebt. Aber das stärkere Element der italienischen Volksseele ist dasjenige, was verwandt ist mit den ersten zwanziger Jahren. Es ist nur schattiert durch dasjenige, was sich eben in den späteren Jahren, wie ich angedeutet habe, auslebt. Es ergreift die Kraft der italienischen Volksseele das einzelne Individuum, den einzelnen Menschen, der sich in sie hineinstellt und sich in der Seele den Volksseelen-Stimmungsgehalt einprägen läßt, es ergreift ihn das so, wie am stärksten, am intensivsten ergriffen werden können seelisch-geistig überhaupt die Jahre zwischen dem zwanzigsten bis siebenundzwanzigsten, achtundzwanzigsten Jahre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":439,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p025"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":439,"en_words":485,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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