{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"However, this book “The Development of Organisms. A Refutation of Darwin's Theory of Chance by Oscar Hertwig” is indeed strange. For while all earlier materialistic interpretations of Darwinism boiled down to saying: We have perfect organisms, we have imperfect organisms; the perfect ones have developed from the imperfect ones through their external natural forces, Hertwig comes back to to the fact that in the perfect organism, if one goes back microscopically to the first germ, one can prove that Nägeli's view is correct, that in the first germ the perfect organism is already distinguished from the imperfect organism. For there is already something quite different in the perfect organism than in the imperfect one, which one believes the perfect one has developed from. Microscopic research has gone to a limit, but it has achieved nothing more than to come across a mirror, and has not progressed further than the limit of the sensory world. The consequence will be that many people who stand on the standpoint of the natural-scientific world view will not merely state, as Hertwig does: the materialistic interpretation of Darwinism is impossible. Rather, they will acknowledge: If we want to arrive at anything that explains the sense world and lies behind it, then we cannot stop at ordinary consciousness; we cannot get out of the sense world, not even with as many telescopes as we want. We can only get out of the sense world if we arm ourselves with the seeing consciousness.","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":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p038","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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Denn es steckt im vollkommenen Organismus schon etwas ganz anderes darinnen als im unvollkommenen, von dem man glaubt, der vollkommene habe sich aus ihm entwickelt. Die mikroskopische Forschung ist bis zu einer Grenze gegangen, aber sie hat auch nichts anderes erreicht, als daß sie dann auf einen Spiegel stößt, und nicht weiter kommt als bis an die Grenze der Sinneswelt. Die Folge wird sein, daß viele Menschen, die auf dem Standpunkte der naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung stehen, nicht bloß konstatieren, wie es Hertwig tut: Die materialistische Ausdeutung des Darwinismus ist unmöglich. Sie werden vielmehr doch anerkennen: Wollen wir überhaupt zu irgend etwas kommen, was diese Sinneswelt erklärt und hinter ihr liegt, dann können wir nicht beim gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein stehenbleiben; da kommen wir nicht aus der Sinneswelt heraus, auch nicht durch noch so viele Fernrohre. 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