{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can now extend this concept to all living things. If we extend it in this way, we go back to the mammals that are closer to humans. Any simple theory of evolution would assume that the higher mammals were the ancestors of man. Today, this notion of man's very brutal descent from apes has been somewhat dropped, but the line of thought is still based on what appears to be different. If we imagine the relationship between humans and higher apes using this concept, we will say: Today's apes may descend from that original being that existed in the distant past and to which humans have evolved, but they have remained at [an older point of view], and therefore, in their present state, [in their present form] do not represent the ancestors of mankind, but the degenerate creation [that has wanted to hold on to an old form; that has corrupted itself]. Therefore, when today's man looks at this ape, he sees it with the mind, [then] it appears to him as a caricature of his own being, not at all as an ancestor, [and anyone with such feelings experiences it] as a kind of embarrassment... [illegible] when the original characteristics of man are corrupted.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. 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Jede einfache Entwicklungslehre möchte annehmen, dass die höheren Säugetiere die Vorfahren des Menschen waren. Heute ist zwar dieser Begriff von der ganz brutalen Abstammung des Menschen von den Affen in einer gewissen Weise fallen gelassen, aber die Denkweise liegt doch dem zugrunde, was scheinbar anders vorgebracht wird. Stellen wir uns mit dem Begriffe die Verwandtschaft des Menschen mit den höheren Affen vor, werden wir sagen: Von jenem Urwesen, das in urferner Vergangenheit vorhanden war und zu dem sich der Mensch hinaufentwickelt hat, stammen zwar die heutigen Affen ab, aber sie sind stehen geblieben auf [einem älteren Standpunkt], stellen daher in heutigem Zustand, [in ihrer heutigen Gestalt] keine Ahnherren der Menschheit dar, sondern das heruntergekommene Gebilde, [das eine alte Form hat festhalten wollen; das sich korrumpiert hat]. 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