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The so-called Enlightenment assumes that people have attributed divine beings and forces to natural phenomena; it starts from the point of view that all religious beliefs are childish fantasies and that, finally, nations have now entered the age of reason, when people finally know how to understand these things.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"18. Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrine","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-04-22","location":null,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1906-04-22/p003","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":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19060422p01.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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Die kindlichen Anlagen der verschiedenen Völkerschaften haben in gleicher Weise gewirkt und in gleicher Weise sich Aufklärung geben wollen über die Seele, Welt und Gott; denn überall unterliegt der Mensch der gleichen Ohnmacht gegenüber dem drohenden Schicksal. Die sogenannte Aufklärung nimmt an, das Volk habe in die Naturerscheinungen göttliche Wesen und Kräfte hineingedichtet; sie geht von dem Standpunkt aus, dass alle Religionsbekenntnisse kindliche Phantasien seien und dass endlich jetzt die Völker in das denkende Zeitalter eingedrungen, wo man endlich wisse, wie diese Dinge aufzufassen seien.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1906-04-22/p003"}],"english":["GA 68a/1906-04-22/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":164,"en_words":176,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4086,"original_word_count":3694,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19060422p01.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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