{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p059","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I think, esteemed attendees, that the German need only emphasize in such a way what is most profound in his world view - and in nothing disintegrate those slanders that also encircle Germany, that encircle the German people. Let us see how differently one must speak in the context of the German essence. It is also a simple fact. Esteemed attendees! What, for example, did the inhabitants of Britain have to invent to justify what is expressed in their current struggle? How did the Germans merely have to point out that the necessity of their struggle for existence was imposed on them, whereas the inhabitants of Britain had to point out? They had to point to something that cannot be described as anything other than a mask. Could they point to something about which the German can say: he had to create the German state in the last decades, after the German, out of his nature, had worked towards this state until then? Could the inhabitants of Britain justify the necessity of their existence in the way they created it through the Boer War, in about the same way as the German can justify what the German does today as the consequence of the war of 1870/71? The true reasons had to be masked there. That the struggle for freedom of other nations is not the ideal there, one need only refer to the history of Britain.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Wie der Deutsche bloß hinzuweisen braucht darauf, dass ihm die Notwendigkeit seines Daseinskampfes aufgedrängt ist, worauf mussten die Bewohner Britanniens hinweisen? Hinweisen mussten sie auf etwas, was man nicht anders bezeichnen kann denn eine Maske. Konnten sie hinweisen auf dasjenige, wovon etwa der Deutsche sagen kann: Er musste in den letzten Jahrzehnten den deutschen Staat schaffen, nachdem der Deutsche aus seinem Wesen heraus, nach seiner Entwicklung, bis zu diesem Staate gearbeitet hat? Konnten die Bewohner Britanniens etwa in derselben Weise die Notwendigkeit ihres Daseins in der Art und Weise, wie sie es geschaffen haben durch den Burenkrieg, rechtfertigen, wie der Deutsche rechtfertigen kann dasjenige, was der Deutsche heute tut als die Konsequenz des Krieges von 1870/71? Die wahren Gründe mussten dort mit Masken umhüllt werden. Dass die Erkämpfung von Freiheit anderer Völker nicht das Ideal dort ist, man braucht bloß auf die Geschichte Britanniens hinzuweisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-25/p059"}],"english":["GA 70b/1915-11-25/p059"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":237,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":13536,"original_word_count":12814,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151125p01.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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