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Admittedly, today this word is usually only used to refer to the development of external forms, that is, the forms of subordinate living beings up to and including humans. 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And we must come to say: What comes into existence in the human being at birth, what gradually and mysteriously unfolds from the still indeterminate facial features, expressions and gestures of the first childlike age, that is the soul-spiritual of the human being, which confronts us with each individual as something special, as an individual. We cannot attribute this to the inherited qualities of the immediate ancestors alone, but we must imagine this relationship of human life to its causes differently than the relationship of the animal to its ancestors. There we understand everything that lives in the individual animal – the form, the physiognomy – when we understand the species. 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What has developed in man as a generic characteristic, we attribute to physical inheritance; but what confronts us as his special being, we must attribute to what the person, as the cause of his present life, has gone through in earlier lives, in earlier stages of existence. And what we encounter in the present framework of his personality, that in turn forms the cause, the basis for his work in a later life. Thus we have a living chain of development that goes from life to life, from incarnation to incarnation. 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In those days, Francesco Redi only just escaped the fate of Giordano Bruno. Today everyone, from the Haeckelianer to the most radical opponents of Haeckel, will recognize this sentence as self-evident, but only within the limits of external nature, insofar as it concerns the body. At that time, however, the sentence “Living things can only come from living things” was a tremendous heresy. Today, however, heretics are no longer burned. But if one stands on the firm ground of today's scientific facts - while in reality one only stands on the ground of one's preconceived ideas, of contemporary prejudices - one regards the law of repeated earth lives, which is the same for the higher areas of spiritual existence as Redi's sentence that living things can only come from living things, as heresy, as fantasy, as sheer madness. 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Allerdings wendet man dieses Wort heute gewöhnlich bloß noch so an, dass man dabei an eine Entwicklung der äußeren Formen denkt, also der Formen von untergeordneten Lebewesen bis herauf zum Menschen. An die Ausgestaltung dieser Idee der Entwicklung für das menschliche Leben, umfassend das ganze Leben des Menschen, auch das seelische und geistige Leben des Menschen, denkt man heute noch wenig; denn würde man sich einlassen auf die Ausgestaltung der Entwicklungsidee für das gesamte Menschenleben, so würde man nach und nach einsehen müssen, dass dasselbe, was wir im Tierreich die Entwicklung der Art oder der Gattung nennen, beim Menschen sich darstellen muss als die Entwicklung des einzelnen Individuums, der einzelnen Individualität.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p004"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Das heißt aber nichts anderes als: Wenn wir beim Tiere sehen, wie sich die einzelnen Arten auseinanderentwickeln, so müssen wir beim Menschen dem Individuum mit demselben Interesse entgegentreten wie im Tierreich der Gattung, so müssen wir beim Menschen von einer Entwicklung der einzelnen Individualität sprechen. Das wollen wir uns in die Seele schreiben: Beim Menschen bringen wir, wenn wir gesunden Sinn haben, der einzelnen Individualität, dem einzelnen Menschen dasselbe Interesse entgegen, das wir beim Tiere der Art oder Gattung entgegenbringen. Dasselbe Interesse, das wir haben für die Löwenart, [sei es] der Löwen-Großvater, der LöwenVater, der Löwen-Sohn und so weiter, das haben wir beim Menschen für jedes individuelle Menschenwesen. Daher müssen wir uns dieselbe Gesetzmäßigkeit, die wir bei den tierischen Gattungen als Entwicklungsgesetz denken, bei den Menschen für die einzelne Individualität denken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p005"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Sie sehen also, dass wir auf dem Gebiete der Geisteswissenschaft sprechen von der Entwicklung der einzelnen Menschenindividualität. Und wir müssen dazu kommen zu sagen: Was beim Menschen mit der Geburt ins Dasein tritt, was sich da nach und nach geheimnisvoll herausgestaltet aus den noch unbestimmten Gesichtszügen, Mienen und Gesten des ersten kindlichen Alters, das ist das Seelisch-Geistige des Menschen, das uns bei jedem Einzelnen als ein Besonderes, ein Individuelles entgegentritt. Das können wir nicht allein zurückführen auf die vererbten Eigenschaften der unmittelbaren Vorfahren, sondern wir müssen uns dieses Verhältnis des Menschenlebens zu seinen Ursachen anders vorstellen als das Verhältnis des Tieres zu seinen Vorfahren. Da verstehen wir alles, was im einzelnen Tiere lebt - die Gestalt, die Physiognomie -, wenn wir die Gattung verstehen. Beim Menschen aber ist das anders.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p006"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Das, was im Menschen lebt, finden wir bei jedem Menschen in besonderer, spezieller Weise. Was sich beim Menschen als gattungsmäßige Merkmale ausgeprägt hat, das führen wir zurück auf die physische Vererbung; das aber, was uns als seine spezielle Wesenheit entgegentritt, das müssen wir zurückführen auf dasjenige, was der Mensch als Ursache zu seinem gegenwärtigen Leben in früheren Leben, in früheren Daseinsstufen durchgemacht hat. Und das, was uns im gegenwärtigen Rahmen seiner Persönlichkeit entgegentritt, das bildet wiederum die Ursache, die Grundlage für sein Wirken in einem späteren Leben. So haben wir eine lebendige Entwicklungskette, die da geht von Leben zu Leben, von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation. Und wir sehen alles, was uns als Charakteristisches am Menschen entgegentritt, so an, dass wir die Notwendigkeit erblicken, es zurückzuführen auf frühere seelisch-geistige Zustände.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p007"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Damit ist Theosophie oder Geisteswissenschaft in der Lage, ein Gesetz auf dem höheren Gebiete des menschlichen Lebens einzufügen, so wie es vor verhältnismäßig kurzer Zeit für das Gebiet des Naturlebens der Menschheitsbildung einverleibt worden ist. Ja, die heutige Menschheit hat ein kurzes Gedächtnis. Es wäre sonst nicht nötig, darauf hinzuweisen, dass noch im siebzehnten Jahrhundert nicht etwa bloß Laien, sondern auch die Gelehrten der Naturwissenschaft angenommen haben, dass niedere Tiere sich aus verfaulendem Flussschlamm herausentwickeln könnten, ohne dass Lebenskeime hineingelegt worden seien. Und es war zuerst der große italienische Naturforscher Francesco Redi, der die gewaltige Umwälzung des naturwissenschaftlichen Denkens hervorgerufen hat, indem er den Satz aufstellte, dass Lebendiges nur von Lebendigem kommen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p008"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Genauso wie dieser Satz innerhalb gewisser Grenzen für das Naturleben gilt, so gilt innerhalb gewisser Grenzen des menschlichen Lebens der andere Satz: Geistig-Seelisches kann nur in Geistig-Seelischem seinen Ursprung haben. - Und es ist nur eine ungenaue Beobachtung, wenn man das, was aus den unbestimmten Untergründen des Bewusstseins eines heranwachsenden Menschen von Tag zu Tag, von Woche zu Woche, von Jahr zu Jahr sich herausarbeitet als ein Geistig-Seelisches, zurückführen will auf die bloß physische Vererbungslinie der Vorfahren - es ist eine ebenso ungenaue Beobachtung, wie es eine ungenaue Beobachtung ist, wenn man das, was im Tier lebt, selbst in Regenwürmern, zurückführen will auf die bloßen Gesetze der Stoffe, die den Flussschlamm zusammensetzen, nur weil man den lebendigen Keim nicht beachtet hat. Ungenau beobachtet ist es, wenn man heute bloß von Vererbung der seelischen und moralischen Fähigkeiten spricht, weil man den seelisch-geistigen Kern nicht beachtet, der sich geradeso dasjenige einfügt, was er sich von den vererbten Merkmalen aneignen kann - so wie der lebendige Keim des Lebewesens sich jenen Stoff aneignet, in den dieser Keim eingebettet ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p009"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Solchen Wahrheiten ergeht es ja im Laufe der Menschheitsentwicklung immer in ziemlich gleicher Weise. Dazumal hat Francesco Redi nur mit Mühe dem Schicksal des Giordano Bruno entgehen können. Heute wird jeder, vom Haeckelianer bis zu den radikalsten Gegnern Haeckels, diesen Satz als selbstverständlich anerkennen, allerdings nur innerhalb der Grenzen der äußeren Natur, insoweit er die Leiblichkeit betrifft. Damals aber war der Satz «Lebendiges kann nur von Lebendigem stammen» eine gewaltige Ketzerei. Heute verbrennt man allerdings die Ketzer nicht mehr. Aber wenn man auf dem festen Boden der heutigen naturwissenschaftlichen Tatsachen steht - während man in Wirklichkeit ja nur auf dem Boden seiner vorgefassten Meinungen, der Zeitvorurteile steht —, betrachtet man heute das Gesetz von den wiederholten Erdenleben, das für die höheren Gebiete des geistigen Daseins dasselbe ist wie der Satz Redis, dass Lebendiges nur von Lebendigem kommen kann, als eine Ketzerei, als Phantasterei, als hellen Wahnsinn. Aber die Zeit ist nicht fern, wo man von diesem Gesetz ebenso sagen wird: Es ist eigentlich unbegreiflich, dass jemals ein Mensch anders gedacht haben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p010"},{"locus":"GA 69c/1911-02-18/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Woher stammt also dieses Gesetz von den wiederholten Erdenleben? Brauchen wir dazu [auf] irgendeine orientalische Weltanschauung [zurückzugehen], muss dieses Gesetz dem Buddhismus entlehnt sein? - Nein, um das Gesetz der wiederholten Erdenleben der modernen europäischen Kultur einzufügen, dazu gehört nur der unbefangene geistesforscherische Blick, der die Tatsachen überschaut. Und das, was dieser Blick erschaut, hat nichts mit irgendwelcher Überlieferung zu tun. Wie irgendein anderes wissenschaftliches Gesetz, so wird auch dieses aufgenommen werden von der modernen Geistesbildung, weil sie aus der Entwicklungsidee heraus selber notwendig zu diesem Gesetze hindrängt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69c/1911-02-18/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[6],"to":[5],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[7],"to":[6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}