{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now we have this German national soul in its development. We encounter it already so wonderfully vividly and magnificently described by Tacitus in the first century AD, which for earlier centuries points to the Germanic national soul from which the German national soul has grown. We see it then in its development through the Middle Ages up to its newer blossoms, where it was immersed in the poetry of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and immersed in the great musical development of the newer German spiritual life. But Christianity, a different communal soul essence, intervenes and permeates this folk soul essence. If we examine the course of events in detail, we can see how these great aspects that I have mentioned are confirmed in the individual expressions of the soul of the people. For example, we can ask: If the being that unconsciously works in man until sexual maturity is truly seized by such a communal consciousness as Christianity, what wants to be incorporated? We need only take words, foreign words that the German language has adopted through Christianity. Such foreign words have entered into the German being that refer to what must be grasped in sensory perception, albeit with a supersensible character, for which one already needs a deeper soul life that can imprint itself in the way I have characterized. For example, the word 'nature' entered the Germanic character of Central Europe through Christianity. Of course, the way it was understood at that time, the word 'nature' is beyond the grasp of anyone who takes it only in the sense in which we understand it today. But in the dialects it still lives in the old meaning. And there we see how this word “nature,” which penetrated Central Europe with Christianity, developed further with folklore. From this one word “nature” and from other words in older versions that have been adopted in this way, we can see how the forces that have been hinted at, which have entered into human individuality from Christianity, are effective in such words.","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":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p041","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 es schiebt sich hinein und durchdringt dieses Volksseelenwesen das Christentum - ein anderes gemeinschaftliches Seelenwesen. Gerade wenn man den Gang der Ereignisse recht im einzelnen untersucht, dann kann man sehen, wie diese großen Gesichtspunkte, die ich angegeben habe, sich im einzelnen da, wo sich das Volksseelenwesen ausdrückt, bestätigen. Zum Beispiel können wir fragen: Wenn das Wesen, das im Menschen unbewußt wirkt bis zur Geschlechtsreife hin, wirklich so ergriffen wird von einem solchen gemeinschaftlichen Bewußtsein wie dem Christentum, was will sich da einleben? Wir brauchen nur Worte zu nehmen, Fremdworte, die die deutsche Sprache durch das Christentum aufgenommen hat. Es sind solche Fremdworte in das deutsche Wesen eingegangen, welche sich beziehen auf das, was in der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung, allerdings mit einem übersinnlichen Charakter, aufgefaßt werden muß, wozu man schon ein tieferes Seelenleben braucht, das sich in der Weise einprägen kann, wie ich es charakterisiert habe. So zum Beispiel ist das Wort «Natur» durch das Christentum nach Mitteleuropa in das deutsche Wesen hereingekommen. Freilich, wie es dazumal aufgefaßt worden ist, das Wort «Natur», davon hat derjenige keine Ahnung, der es nur in dem Sinne nimmt, wie wir es heute fassen. Aber in den Dialekten lebt es noch in der alten Bedeutung. Und da sehen wir, wie sich dieses Wort «Natur», das mit dem Christentum in Mitteleuropa eindringt, mit dem Volkstum weiter entwickelt. An diesem einen Wort «Natur» und an anderen Worten älterer Versionen, die auf diese Weise eingedrungen sind, kann man nachweisen, wie die angedeuteten Kräfte, die aus dem Christentum hereinkraften in die menschliche Individualität, wirksam sind in solchen Worten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":344,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p041"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p041"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":344,"en_words":338,"ratio":0.98,"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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