{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Another fact is added to this. I can only hint at these things. If one were to study the details of what I have just said, for example on the basis of Schröer's explanations of grammar and his dictionaries of Austro-German dialects, one would truly be able to prove the sentence just uttered as one would any scientific sentence. Another peculiarity that follows from this fact of the German soul is that the German soul needs the emotional connection to what is native and similar, the coexistence with what is native and similar, in order to feel the freshness of this native and similar again and again. The German is not able to push his way into foreign folklore with strong inner strength that leaves him unchanged, as the Englishman does, for example. If he wants to experience his own folk-spirit inwardly and vividly, he needs to be in direct contact with the whole aura, with the whole atmosphere of the folk-spirit. That is why something develops within this aura, this atmosphere of the folk-spirit, that is so difficult to understand for those around it, that is so difficult to grasp for the more rigidly configured folk-spirits, which immediately want to force everything into their categories and thereby distort it; whereas in the unstable, in the light equilibrium in which everything hovers in the German national soul, everything wants to be directly experienced and lived in the living connection with the national soul element itself. This is beautifully illustrated in certain sayings of the truly genuine German spirit Herman Grimm, who has often been mentioned here. More than many others, he has realized – not in the distinctly spiritual scientific form that I am now expounding, but in an inner feeling – how the German soul needs this constant, ever-present fertilization of the mind, and how it can only flourish there. Here he expresses very beautifully how that which the German forms, what the German forms, can actually only be fully understood by this German soul itself, which can be characterized in the way just indicated, and how that which is to be grasped from this soul is distorted, caricatured, by foreign folklore, for the very reason indicated, because the reasons I have already indicated. Herman Grimm says very beautiful and wonderful words, which perhaps many non-Germans do not appreciate, but they are wonderful. They are not only beautiful but also wonderfully true:","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":403,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p033","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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Eine andere Eigentümlichkeit, die aus dieser Tatsache des deutschen Seelenwesens folgt, ist diese, daß das deutsche Seelenwesen den gemüthaften Anschluß an Heimatliches, Gleichartiges, das Zusammenleben mit Heimatlichem, Gleichartigem, braucht, um immer wieder und wiederum die Frische dieses Heimatlichen, Gleichartigen zu fühlen. Der Deutsche ist nicht imstande, sich mit starker innerer Kraft, die ihn unverändert läßt, wie etwa der Engländer, in fremdes Volkstum hineinzuschieben. Er braucht, wenn er sein Volkstum so recht innerlich lebendig haben will, den unmittelbaren Zusammenhang mit der ganzen Aura, mit der ganzen Atmosphäre des Volkstums. Daher entwickelt sich auch innerhalb dieser Aura, dieser Atmosphäre des Volkstums etwas, was im Umkreise so schwer verstanden wird, was so schwer hineingeht in die fester konfigurierten Volksseelen, die gleich alles in ihre Kategorien hineinzwängen wollen und es dadurch verzerren; während in dem labilen, in dem leichten Gleichgewicht, in dem alles schwebt in der deutschen Volksseele, alles unmittelbar erfahren und erlebt sein will im lebendigen Zusammenhang mit dem Volksseelenelement selbst. Das zeigt sich so schön in gewissen Aussprüchen, die der hier oftmals schon erwähnte, wahrhaftig echt deutsche Geist Herman Grimm getan hat. Mehr als mancher andere ist er sich bewußt geworden - nicht in dieser ausgesprochen geisteswissenschaftlichen Form, wie ich es jetzt auseinandersetze, sondern in einem inneren Gefühl —, wie das deutsche Seelentum dieses unmittelbare, immer fortwährend gegenwärtige Befruchtetwerden der Gemüter braucht, und wie es nur da gedeihen kann. Da spricht er sehr schön aus, wie dasjenige, was der Deutsche formt, was der Deutsche bildet, eigentlich nur von dieser, in der eben angedeuteten Weise zu charakterisierenden deutschen Seele selbst wieder nur ganz voll verstanden werden kann, und wie dasjenige, was aus dieser Seele heraus erfaßt werden soll durch fremdes Volkstum, eben aus dem angedeuteten Grund verzerrt, karrikiert wird, weil auf die Feinheiten nicht eingegangen werden kann, die dadurch da sind, daß sich das deutsche Wesen ausbreitet über die Eigentümlichkeiten der Menschenseele vom zwanzigsten bis zum fünfundvierzigsten Jahre, wie ich es angedeutet habe, So sagt Herman Grimm sehr schöne, wunderschöne Worte — wenn sie auch vielleicht manchem Nicht-Deutschen nicht gefallen, aber sie sind wunderbar -, nicht nur schöne, sondern auch wunderbar richtige Worte:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":408,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p033"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p033"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":408,"en_words":403,"ratio":0.99,"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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