{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now we see something highly peculiar. Certain parts that were originally connected with the German folk soul move into the Balkan Peninsula, move into Spain, into present-day France, move across as Anglo-Saxons to the present-day British Isles. That which was connected with the German folk soul through blood is given off to the surrounding area, to the periphery. And the surrounding peripheral cultures arise from the fact that other folk souls in turn act like the supersensible alchemists, that, for example, the Romance element is mixed together in an alchemical way, right down to the language, with that which is the old Gallic element, but into which has flowed what was connected with the Germanic blood of the German folk soul character, which has been drawn into the Franks in the Frankish Empire. This is what is present in France of the German folk soul itself, what lives in it, what is mixed with the other element through the alchemist of the French folk soul. The same happened with the Italian element, and the same with the British element. The Anglo-Saxon element, in a state that still testifies to a relatively early development, an earlier stage of development of the German folk soul, pushed into Celtic nature. It was met by a Romanesque nature. And so the alchemist of the British national soul had to do, as it were, what I have characterized as the interrelations of these individual Western national souls with the individual human beings, who have their soul-mood character from the individual national souls. So that if we look into the surrounding area, we find that it contains truly ancient Germanic soul elements. That is there. And what has emerged in the way I have described has come about precisely because — just as substances are obtained in chemistry through the interaction of other substances — folk soul elements have been mixed together in this way. But in the center of Europe, what has undergone a continuous development is what has always remained in line and current with this broad character that I have described.","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":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p044","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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Und die umliegenden Peripherie-Kulturen entstehen dadurch, daß andere Volksseelen wiederum wie die übersinnlichen Alchimisten wirken, daß zum Beispiel romanisches Wesen bis in die Sprache hinein in alchimistischer Weise zusammengemischt wird mit demjenigen, was alt-gallisches Wesen ist, in das aber hineingeströmt ist, was von deutschem Volksseelencharakter verbunden war mit germanischem Blut, das in den Franken hineingezogen ist in das Frankenreich. Das ist dasjenige, was in Frankreich von der deutschen Volksseele selber vorhanden ist, was darinnen lebt, was durch den Alchimisten der französischen Volksseele mit dem anderen Element vermischt ist. Ebenso ist es mit dem italienischen Element, ebenso ist es mit dem britischen Element gegangen. Das angelsächsische Element, in einem Zustande, der noch eine verhältnismäßig frühe Entwickelung, ein früheres Entwickelungsstadium der deutschen Volksseele bezeugt, schob sich hinein in keltisches Wesen. Ihm kam romanisches Wesen entgegen. Daraus wurde gleichsam dasjenige, was der Alchimist der britischen Volksseele zu tun hatte, um das zustande zu bringen, was ich ja charakterisiert habe als die Wechselbeziehungen dieser einzelnen westlichen Volksseelen zu den einzelnen menschlichen Individuen, die ihren Seelenstimmungs-Charakter von den einzelnen Volksseelen haben. So daß, wenn wir in den Umkreis hineinsehen, wir überall wirklich uraltes germanisches Seelenelement darinnen haben. Das ist da. Und das, was entstanden ist in der Weise, wie ich es geschildert habe, ist eben dadurch entstanden — so wie man Stoffe in der Chemie durch gewisses Zusammenwirken von anderen Stoffen bekommt -, daß hier in dieser Weise Volksseelenelemente zusammengemischt worden sind. Aber in der Mitte Europas ist dasjenige geblieben, was eine fortdauernde Entwickelung durchgemacht hat, was immer in der Linie und Strömung mit diesem weiten Charakter geblieben ist, den ich dargestellt habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p044"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p044"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":328,"en_words":348,"ratio":1.06,"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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