{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-01-14/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Spiritual research is now very likely to evoke not only justified objections against itself, but also, I might say, justified prejudices. This comes about in the following way. The natural scientist, because he has to adhere to the facts of material events with a certain healthy materialistic method, very easily comes to regard the spiritual completely as something that is either not there at all, or at least cannot be recognized. And so science gradually becomes not what it could be – I would say: an external revelation of profound inner facts of spiritual life itself – but science becomes something that is only pursued in such a way that one gets stuck in material life. Then this theoretical standstill in the material world is very easily transferred to practical life; and the consequence may be that one actually comes to the conclusion that all spiritual has no value after all or at least cannot be recognized; that science is a guide for human benefit. So that science has in many cases become a mere servant of social and also of individual egoism in the course of time, that it has entered into the service of egoism, that instead of seeking truth like a goddess in science, in many cases only that which can serve material human development in one field or another is sought. Those who see this material development of humanity as the only one that matters must, if they are consistent, also view the science of nature in such a way that all knowledge gained from nature ultimately finds an application in the material progress that humanity is undergoing. Yes, one can see how - I would like to say - a scientific direction that serves practical, purely material interests appears threateningly before the soul's eye. Man is very easily inclined, when he devotes himself to natural scientific methods without feeling and sensation for the reality of the spirit, man is very easily inclined to then respect only the material, the material use at all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. The Harmony Between Spiritual Science and Natural Science and the Misconceptions about the Former and the Building Dedicated to it in Dornach","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-01-14","location":null,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-01-14/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19160114p01.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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Das kommt auf die folgende Weise zustande. Der Naturforscher, weil er sich mit einer gewissen gesunden materialistischen Methode an die Tatsachen des materiellen Geschehens halten muss, kommt sehr leicht dazu, den Geist vollständig als etwas zu betrachten, was entweder gar nicht da ist, oder was man wenigstens nicht erkennen kann. Und dadurch wird die Wissenschaft allmählich nicht dasjenige, was sie sein könnte - ich möchte sagen: Eine äußere Offenbarung für tiefe innere Tatsachen des geistigen Lebens selber, sondern die Wissenschaft wird etwas, was nur getrieben wird so, dass man im materiellen Leben stecken bleibt. Dann überträgt sich sehr leicht dieses theoretische Stehenbleiben beim Materiellen auf das praktische Leben; und die Folge kann sein, dass man eigentlich zuletzt zu der Anschauung kommt, alles Geistige habe denn doch keinen Wert oder könne wenigstens nicht erkannt werden; die Wissenschaft sei eine Anleitung für den menschlichen Nutzen. Sodass diese Wissenschaft für den sozialen und auch für den individuellen Egoismus im Laufe der Zeit vielfach eine bloße Dienerin geworden ist, dass sie in den Dienst des Egoismus getreten ist, dass, statt die Wahrheit wie eine Göttin in der Wissenschaft zu suchen, vielfach nur dasjenige gesucht wird, was der materiellen Menschheitsentwicklung auf dem einen oder anderen Gebiete dienen kann. Diejenigen, die diese materielle Menschheitsentwicklung als die einzige ansehen, auf die es ankommt, die müssen ja im Grunde genommen, wenn sie konsequent sind, auch die Wissenschaft von der Natur so betrachten, dass alles Wissen, das aus der Natur gewonnen wird, zuletzt eine Anwendung findet in dem materiellen Fortschrittsprozess, den die Menschheit durchmacht. Ja, man kann sehen, wie - ich möchte sagen -, eine in den Dienst der praktischen, rein materiellen Interessen tretende wissenschaftliche Richtung bedrohend vor das Seelenauge hintritt. 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