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It was said that anyone who traveled on them would inevitably suffer severe nervous shocks.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The Essence of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-07-02","location":null,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68d/1907-07-02/p060","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 Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19070702p01.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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Die Theosophie musste kommen, es war eine Lebensnotwendigkeit für die Menschheit. Wenn sie auch jetzt noch angefeindet wird, was schadet das? Alles, was neu und unbegreiflich erscheint, ist zuerst angefeindet worden und nachher selbstverständlich geworden. Man denke an die Postmarke — kein Postverwalter kam auf diese einfache Idee, und als sie zuerst aufkam, wurde sie «hirnverbrannt» genannt. Das war vor nur 70 Jahren! Und ebenso war es mit den ersten Eisenbahnen. Es hieß, wer darauf führe, müsse unweigerlich schwere Nervenerschütterungen davontragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68d/1907-07-02/p060"}],"english":["GA 68d/1907-07-02/p060"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":135,"en_words":152,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6665,"original_word_count":6370,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068d/English/SOL2024/19070702p01.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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