{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"[And so, step by step, we descend from higher to much lower creatures. In the remote past, we come to ancestors of man, whom we must not seek in creatures similar to present-day humans – the further back we go, the more dissimilar they become to the creatures that exist today. They are quite differently shaped]; from those ancestors of man, as a retarded and therefore declining entity, the lower mammals and other lower creatures descend. If we go back to the simplest creatures, [those that live today, consisting of one cell, from which one would also like to derive man,] then we would have to say that, yes, these creatures are undoubtedly related to man. But in the distant past, when man had an ancestor [from whom even these simple single-celled organisms descended, man looked quite different, his ancestor was a completely different being: The simplest organisms are the ones that are furthest behind and therefore the furthest from the original form of [the human being]. This is because they branched off earliest and, since humans have perfected themselves, have undergone a decline, [taken a direction of decline, and are the ones that are furthest from the original form].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. The Origin of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-31","location":null,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p018","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 Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19071031p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p018"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p018","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Da keine professionellen Stenogramme vorliegen, handelt es sich oftmals um notizenhaft festgehaltene Zusammenfassungen oder Berichte.","evidence_translation":"Since no professional shorthand transcripts exist, these are often summaries or reports kept in the form of notes.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 68b). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-10-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":194,"en_words":200,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1907-10-31/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"[Und so kommen wir Schritt für Schritt zurück von höheren zu viel niedrigeren Wesen. Wir kommen in urferner Vergangenheit zu Vorfahren des Menschen, die wir nicht suchen dürfen in Wesen, die ähnlich sind den heutigen Menschen — je weiter es zurückgeht, desto unähnlicher werden sie den Wesen, die heute existieren. Ganz anders gestaltet sind sie]; von jenen Ahnen des Menschen stammen ab, wie eine zurückgebliebene und deshalb in den Niedergang gekommene Wesenheit, die niederen Säugetiere und weitere niedere Lebewesen. Wenn wir zurückgehen bis zu den einfachsten Lebewesen, [die heute leben, meinetwegen] aus einer Zelle bestehende Lebewesen, [von denen man auch den Menschen ableiten möchte], dann müssten wir sagen, ja, diese Lebewesen stehen in Verwandtschaft mit dem Menschen unzweifelhaft. Aber damals als der Mensch in urferner Vergangenheit einen Ahnherrn hatte, [von dem auch diese einfachen Einzeller abstammen, da] schaute der Mensch ganz anders aus, war sein Ahnherr ein ganz anderes Wesen: Die am weitesten zurückgebliebenen, daher am wenigsten die Urform [des menschlichen Wesen] darstellenden Lebewesen sind die einfachen. Denn sie haben sich am frühesten abgezweigt, haben, [seit] sich der Mensch vervollkommnet hat, einen Niedergang durchgemacht, [eine Niedergangsrichtung eingeschlagen und stellen am allerwenigsten die Urform dar].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1907-10-31/p017"}],"english":["GA 68b/1907-10-31/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":194,"en_words":200,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8044,"original_word_count":7712,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19071031p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 68b/1907-10-31/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}