{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If one wants to look into the soul of a nation, then it is necessary to first look at the essence of the individual human soul. I cannot discuss today in detail the thoughts that I have often expressed here about this individual human soul; I will only touch on them from the point of view that should lead to our reflection today. Particulars that are to be mentioned today will be the subject of tomorrow's lecture. But by pointing out some of the things I have been allowed to say here over the years, also proving them from the foundations of spiritual science, it may be said that, before the eye of spiritual research, this human soul does not present itself as the vague surge of inner life, as which it so often presents itself to today's soul teaching, which is more influenced by a positivistic - as it were - view. Spiritual science regards this mixing up of all the individual expressions and structures of the soul life, as is often found in the external soul science of today, as just as unscientific and as unfruitful for a true contemplation of life as it would regard the failure to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen in scientific observation when one wishes to consider it in its connection with world phenomena. I have often said, as here, that just as the chemist breaks down water into hydrogen and oxygen in order to be able to observe it in its context in the natural world, so the spiritual observer must explore the human soul in its [articulation, the German: «in seiner Gliederung»], which is not an arbitrary abstraction, which does not correspond to a mere external judgment, but to a real experience of that which makes up the whole extent of human soul life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Aber indem ich hinweise auf manches, was ich im Lauf der Jahre hier sagen durfte, auch erweisend aus den Grundlagen der Geisteswissenschaft heraus sagen durfte, so sei es zunächst das, dass sich vor dem Blick der Geistesforschung diese menschliche Seele darstellt nicht als das unbestimmte Gewoge inneren Lebens, als welches es sich so oftmals der heutigen, mehr von einer positivistischen —- wie man sagt -, Anschauung angehauchten Seelenlehre darstellt. Der Geisteswissenschaft erscheint dieses Durcheinanderwerfen aller einzelnen Äußerungen und Gliederungen des Seelenlebens - wie da oftmals zu finden ist in der äußeren Seelenwissenschaft von heute — ebenso unwissenschaftlich und ebenso unfruchtbar für eine wahre Lebensbetrachtung, wie ihr erscheinen würde, das Wasser etwa nicht in der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtung zu zerlegen in Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff, wenn man es in seinem Zusammenhang mit den Weltenerscheinungen ins Auge fassen will. 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