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Another example of such a judgment based on practical experience is when the postmaster Nagler in Potsdam said: “I already send two stagecoaches out every day with no one sitting in them; how is anyone supposed to sit in the train if I send even more every day?”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. The Practical Training of Thinking","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-13","location":null,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p014","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 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/SOL2024/19090213p01.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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Das Dokument kann gelesen werden, es wurde das Urteil abgegeben von den Praktikern — es liegt gar nicht so viel Menschenalter hinter uns —, man solle keine Eisenbahnen bauen, denn — so urteilten die Praktiker — die Leute würden sich ihr Nervensystem zugrunde richten. Wenn man aber doch Eisenbahnen bauen wollte und sich Menschen finden würden, die damit fahren, so müsse man hohe Bretterwände zu beiden Seiten errichten, damit diejenigen, an denen die Bahn vorbeifährt, nicht Gehirnerschütterung kriegen. Wiederum ein solches Urteil aus der Praxis ist es, wenn der Postmeister Nagler in Potsdam gesagt hat: Ich lasse täglich zwei Postkutschen hinausfahren, in denen niemand sitzt; wie soll in der Bahn dann jemand sitzen, wenn ich täglich noch mehr fahren lasse?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p014"}],"english":["GA 68b/1909-02-13/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":161,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8301,"original_word_count":8161,"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/SOL2024/19090213p01.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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