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And so today I can only characterize these fundamental laws, as it were, which I have hinted at to you. But anyone who wants to go into what external experience offers to a spirit like the one I have described, who, like Jacob Grimm, can research the nature of the people using the methods of external science, will see the truth of it everywhere. There is not enough time today to go into this, which would be very interesting, to show how these general laws are realized in all soul phenomena, and how these soul phenomena of man and his appearance in the physical world, insofar as he belongs to any folk soul, can only be explained by coming behind the particular configuration of his appearance in this way.","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":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p029","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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Diese Gesetze der Lautverschiebung zeigen, wie in der Aufeinanderfolge der Zeit Gesetzmäßigkeit waltet überall da, wo Seelisches mit ins Spiel kommt. Wenn man sie einfach so entwickelt, wie sie Jakob Grimm hingestellt hat, da erscheinen sie natürlich auch so in ihrer Abstraktheit; aber sie sind zu erhärten, zu erweisen in all den Fällen, auf die es ankommt, aus der ganzen Breite der Erfahrung heraus. Und so kann ich Ihnen heute auch nur diese Grundgesetze, die ich Ihnen andeutete, gewissermaßen charakterisieren. Aber derjenige, der nur eingehen will auf das, was die äußere Erfahrung eben einem Geiste bietet, wie ich ihn geschildert habe, der gerade wie Jakob Grimm das Volkswesen nach dem Verfahren der äußeren Wissenschaft erforschen kann, der wird überall die Bewahrheitung sehen. Es ist heute nur nicht Zeit, auf das, was ja sehr interessant wäre, einzugehen, zu zeigen, wie sich diese allgemeinen Gesetze bewahrheiten in allen Seelenerscheinungen, und wie diese Seelenerscheinungen des Menschen und sein Auftreten in der physischen Welt, insoferne er irgendeinem Volksseelenwesen angehört, ‚sich nur dadurch erklären lassen, daß man auf diese Weise hinter die besondere Konfiguration seines Auftretens kommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p029"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p029"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":274,"en_words":284,"ratio":1.04,"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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