{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the “Philosophy of the Unconscious” was published, which criticized Darwin's theory of chance in a sharp-witted way, a large number of scientifically minded people came forward to oppose this “dilettante thinker” Eduard von Hartmann. A dilettante philosopher who doesn't understand anything of what Darwinism has brought, and who speaks so glibly from his own intellectual standpoint! And among those who criticized Hartmann at the time was Oscar Schmid, a professor in Jena. Haeckel himself was also among them. Haeckel himself and numerous of his students were now highly astonished that among the many writings that, in their opinion, brilliantly refuted Eduard von Hartmann, who talked such amateurish nonsense, there was also a writing by an anonymous author – by a man who did not name himself. And Haeckel said: He should come forward! And others also said: He should come forward and we would accept him as one of our own! It is so wonderful that a scientific paper has now been published in this way against the nonsense of the “philosophy of the unconscious”! — And a second edition of this paper “The Unconscious in the Light of Darwinism” was published. And the author called himself – it was Eduard von Hartmann! You see, there were reasons why people no longer declaimed: He calls himself us and we consider him one of us. They now kept quiet about him. That was a fundamental lesson that had to be taught to those who believe that the one who talks about the spirit does so because he does not understand their science. It became quite quiet now. But something else was noticed: in 1916 a very interesting work was published that can be said to stand at the pinnacle of the field it discusses. This work is called: 'The Development of Organisms. A Refutation of Darwin's Theory of Chance'. And this work - well, who wrote it? Well, it is by the often mentioned most brilliant Haeckel student, by Oscar Hertwig, the Berlin professor of biology. We are witnessing the strange spectacle that the next generation of Haeckel's students, the generation of students of which he himself was most proud, is already writing books to refute the Darwinian theory of chance, which at the time when they turned against Hartmann was precisely the one prevailing in the Haeckel circle. And what does Hertwig do, whom I myself knew as one of the most loyal Haeckel students with his brother Richard? He adopts what can be called a “materialistic interpretation of the Darwinian theory” and refutes it piece by piece, quoting Eduard von Hartmann at several points. Hartmann now reappears in Oscar Hertwig's writing “The Becoming of Organisms. A Refutation of Darwin's Theory of Chance” and is honored again. In the past, when he was not known, people said: He calls himself unconscious, and we consider him one of us. And now we are beginning to come back to what Hartmann still put into the unconscious. Now we are beginning to recognize the spiritual in what is there sensually.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-31","location":null,"word_count":508,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p037","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":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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Haeckel selber und zahlreiche seiner Schüler waren nun höchst erstaunt darüber, daß unter den vielen Schriften, die nach ihrer Ansicht glänzend widerlegten diesen Eduard von Hartmann, der solch laienhaften Unsinn redete, auch eine Schrift erschien von einem Anonymus — von einem Manne, der sich nicht nannte. Und Haeckel sagte: Er nenne sich uns! Und andere sagten ebenfalls: Er nenne sich uns und wir betrachten ihn als einen der Unsrigen! Es ist so großartig, daß eine naturwissenschaftliche Schrift in dieser Weise gegen das Gewäsch der «Philosophie des Unbewußten» nun erschienen ist! — Und es erschien eine zweite Auflage dieser Schrift «Das Unbewußte im Lichte des Darwinismus». Und da nannte sich der Verfasser — es war Eduard von Hartmann! Sie sehen, es waren Gründe vorhanden, daß man jetzt nicht mehr fortdeklamierte: Er nenne sich uns und wir betrachten ihn als einen der Unsrigen. Man schwieg ihn jetzt tot.- Das war einegründliche Lektion, die einmal erteilt werden mußte denen, die da glauben, derjenige, der vom Geiste redet, tue das aus dem Grunde, weil er von ihrer Wissenschaft nichts verstünde. Es wurde jetzt ziemlich still. Aber etwas anderes merkte man: 1916 ist eine sehr interessante Schrift erschienen, von der man sagen kann, sie steht auf dem Gebiete, von dem sie spricht, auf der vollen Höhe dieser Wissenschaft. Diese Schrift heißt: «Das Werden der Organismen. Eine Widerlegung von Darwins Zufallstheorie.» Und diese Schrift - nun, von wem ist sie? Nun, sie ist von dem oftmals genannten glänzendsten Haeckelschüler, von Oscar Hertwig, dem Berliner Professor der Biologie. Wir erleben das merkwürdige Schauspiel, daß die nächste Schülergeneration Haeckels, diejenige Schülergeneration, auf die er selbst am allerstolzesten war, schon Bücher schreibt zur Widerlegung der Darwinschen Zufallstheorie, welche in der Zeit, als man sich gegen Hartmann wendete, gerade die im Haeckelkreise herrschende war. Und was macht Hertwig, den ich selber mit seinem Bruder Richard als einen der treuesten Haeckelschüler kannte? Er nimmt durch, was man nennen kann «materialistische Ausdeutung der Darwinschen Theorie», und widerlegt es Stück für Stück und zitiert an manchen Stellen Eduard von Hartmann. Hartmann taucht in der Schrift von Oscar Hertwig «Das Werden der Organismen. Eine Widerlegung von Darwins Zufallstheorie» nun wiederum auf, kommt wieder zu Ehren. Dazumal, als man ihn nicht kannte, sagte man: Er nenne sich uns, und wir betrachten ihn als einen der Unsrigen. Und jetzt fängt man an, auf dasjenige, was Hartmann noch ins Unbewußte verlegte, zurückzukommen. Jetzt fängt man an, das Geistige anzuerkennen in dem, was sinnlich da ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":491,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/66/1917-03-31/p037"}],"english":["GA 66/1917-03-31/p037"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":491,"en_words":508,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10452,"original_word_count":9922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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