{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p072","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One can see how little it can be understood! There is one of those who, shortly before the beginning of this war, used to move around in Germany as foreign spirits, talking about all kinds of friendships with the German essence, about all kinds of understanding that they claim to have acquired for the German essence: that is Emile Boutroux. Shortly before the war, he even lectured at German universities about how one should revere the depths of the German spirit. And now the true Frenchman [Boutroux] is telling his fellow Frenchmen – he wants to be funny, of course, the good [Boutroux] wants to be funny – he is telling them what a difference there is between the French, the English and the Germans; what we - though for the French, certainly in a joking way - have sought today from the depths of the German character, yes, Boutroux talked about that in a similar way to his French not too long ago. He said: Yes, when the French want to recognize a lion or a hyena – you don't get the news exactly, but that's roughly how he spoke – and in any case, what I am saying is essentially not inaccurate – when the French describe a lion or a hyena, they go to the menagerie and observe the lion or the hyena; when the English want to recognize a lion or a hyena, they travel around the world and observe the life of the lion or the hyena. But when the Germans want to recognize a lion or a hyena, they neither go to a menagerie nor travel around the world, but retreat to their study and design the image of the lion and the hyena from within, without looking at the outside!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. A Consideration Regarding Our Fateful Times","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-02-19","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p072","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/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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Und jetzt erzählt der wohl echte Franzose [Boutroux] seinen Franzosen vor etwa — witzig will er sein natürlich, der gute [Boutroux] will witzig sein —, er erzählt, was für ein Unterschied besteht zwischen den Franzosen, den Engländern und den Deutschen; dasjenige, was wir - allerdings für die Franzosen ganz gewiss in einer scherzhaften Weise - heute aus den Tiefen des deutschen Wesens heraus gesucht haben, ja, davon schwätzte Boutroux in einer solchen Weise etwa zu seinen Franzosen noch vor ganz kurzer Zeit. Da sagte er: Ja, wenn die Franzosen einen Löwen erkennen wollen oder eine Hyäne - ganz genau bekommt man ja die Nachrichten nicht, aber so etwa sprach er - und es ist jedenfalls dem Wesen nach nicht ungenau, was ich erzähle -, wenn die Franzosen einen Löwen oder eine Hyäne beschreiben wollen, da gehen sie in die Menagerie und beobachten den Löwen oder die Hyäne; wenn die Engländer einen Löwen oder eine Hyäne erkennen wollen, dann machen sie eine Weltreise und beobachten draußen das Leben des Löwen oder der Hyäne. Wenn die Deutschen aber einen Löwen oder eine Hyäne erkennen wollen, dann gehen sie weder in eine Menagerie, noch machen sie eine Reise um die Welt, sondern sie ziehen sich zurück in ihre Studierstube und entwerfen aus ihrem Innern heraus das Bild des Löwen und der Hyäne, ohne anzuschauen das Äußere!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p072"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p072"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":297,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":14379,"original_word_count":13871,"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/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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