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From the perspective of spiritual science, as it is possible for the inquiring human soul in the present, this question will be discussed today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. 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Und man braucht auch nicht, sehr verehrte Anwesende, zu überlegen: Was nützt eine Antwort auf diese Frage? Was bedeutet eine Antwort auf diese Frage? Welchen wissenschaftlichen Wert hat sie? - und dergleichen, sondern man kann fühlen, dass innere Ruhe, inneres Gleichgewicht des Menschen davon abhängt, ob er wenigstens das Gefühl entwickeln kann, dass dieser Frage irgendeine Antwort zu finden sei. Vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft, wie sie der forschenden Menschenseele in der Gegenwart möglich ist, soll diese Frage heute besprochen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p003"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":153,"en_words":160,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10124,"original_word_count":9939,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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