{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So if we know that they [the two people standing opposite each other] are related, [if we] can determine that from something, can we then conclude that [the one who has the genius and who was hardworking and achieved something decent comes] from [the other who was lazy and careless and did not improve]? Anyone who reflects a little will be able to realize how unnatural such a conclusion would be, and how easily he could be set right in his thinking if it were shown to him that the one as well as the other person descended from the same parents, that the one has only developed upward to his industriousness, but the other has declined, has developed downward. It is extremely trivial, [what I see], and it could seem as if an admirable theory that prevails in the world today should be refuted [by an /illegible/ triviality].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. 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Wer ein wenig nachdenkt, wird sich klarmachen können, wie unnatürlich eine solche Schlussfolgerung wäre, [und] wie leicht [er] richtiggestellt werden [könnte] in seinem Denken, wenn ihm nachgewiesen würde, dass der eine wie der andere [dieser] Mensch[en] von [den]selben Eltern abstammt, der eine sich nur hinaufentwickelt hat zu seinem Fleiße, der andere aber zurückgegangen ist, sich hinunterentwickelt hat. 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