{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this way, one could follow in many individual ways how the German soul-nature is developing through the influence of foreign soul-natures. But just as we have to look for the interaction of conditions in the individual, also in the sequence of time, as I indicated in the first part of my lecture, so, if the development of the German soul is to be fully understood, the work of this German soul must be understood. And I can characterize this for you briefly in the following way. As I said, we find the German national soul already in very ancient times. You know that I do not love vague, mystical, and especially not materialistic-mystical concepts, but in this case you will forgive me: This German national soul acts like a mighty alchemist, bringing about what has been taking place among Germans in the center of Europe from ancient times, going back to pre-Christian centuries. It is already at work in such a way that the earlier activity is connected with the later one, when there could not yet be any question of the configuration of the French, Spanish, Italian, as well as the British, being present in its present form. It continued to work through the centuries and continues to work today. As we have often said in these lectures, it carries the seeds of a long-lasting effect. Precisely when one recognizes it, one can see this. And it can work through such long periods of time, in so many transformations, precisely because it contains such widespread forces as those present in the human soul from the beginning of the 1920s to the 1940s. But, as we have seen, it has been at work since ancient times. But how did it work then? Now we see how this mighty alchemist, the German national soul, comes into play, bringing about the conditions described by Tacitus, and how later there came the time when that which had been wrought out of this national soul made an onslaught against the southern, western, Roman nature.","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":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p043","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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Sie wissen, ich liebe nicht vage, mystische, insbesondere nicht materialistisch-mystische Begriffe, aber in diesem Fall werden Sie mir das Wort verzeihen: Diese deutsche Volksseele wirkt wie ein mächtiger Alchimist, bewirkend dasjenige, was unter Deutschen sich abspielt in der Mitte Europas von alten Zeiten, in vorchristliche Jahrhunderte weit zurückgehend. Sie wirkt da schon so, daß das frühere Wirken mit dem späteren einen fortgehenden Zusammenhang hat, als noch nicht die Rede davon sein konnte, daß die Konfiguration des französischen, spanischen, italienischen Wesens, ebenso des britischen Wesens, in seiner jetzigen Form vorhanden gewesen wäre. Sie wirkte durch die Jahrhunderte fort und wirkt heute. Wie wir oftmals in diesen Vorträgen gesagt haben: Sie trägt die Keime zu noch langem Wirken in sich. Gerade wenn man sie erkennt, kann man ihr dieses ansehen. Und sie kann so durch so lange Zeiten, in so vielen Wandlungen eben deshalb wirken, weil sie so ausgebreitete Kräfte in sich enthält, wie es die in der Menschenseele vom Anfang der zwanziger bis in die vierziger Jahre vorhandenen Kräfte sind. Sie wirkt aber, wie wir gesehen haben, schon in alten Zeiten. Aber wie wirkt sie da? Nun, wir sehen, wie dieser mächtige Alchimist, die deutsche Volksseele, auftritt, jene Zustände bewirkt, die da Tacitus schildert, wie später dann die Zeiten kommen, wo dasjenige, was aus dieser Volksseele herauskraftet, den Ansturm unternimmt gegen das südliche, westliche Wesen, das römische Wesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p043"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p043"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":324,"en_words":341,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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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