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We see the transition from the old gill breathing, which is still present in human embryonic development, to lung breathing, which is the preparation for red blood, which plays such an important role in human beings as well as in the life of nations. This moment of capturing the oxygen in the air through the lungs is also the moment of the human being being endowed with a human soul. Only then was he a suitable vessel for what we call a human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-05-24","location":null,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-05-24/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19070524p01.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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Damit hängt zusammen das, was wir an andern Vorgängen im Leibe kennen, die mit dieser Lungenatmung irgendein Verhältnis haben. Wir sehen den Übergang von der alten Kiemenatmung, die heute noch in der Embryonalentwicklung des Menschen enthalten ist, zur Lungenatmung, die die Bereitung ist des roten Blutes, das eine so bedeutungsvolle Rolle spielt im Menschen wie im Völkerleben. Dieser Zeitpunkt des Einfangens des Sauerstoffes der Luft durch die Lungen, dieses ist auch der Zeitpunkt des Beseelens des Menschen durch eine Menschenseele. Da erst war er ein geeignetes Gefäss für das, was wir eine Menschenseele nennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-05-24/p020"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-05-24/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":198,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7525,"original_word_count":7243,"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/SOL2024/19070524p01.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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