{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p075","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But one has not always looked at this German essence in this way! And it would be particularly interesting to see which minds have tried to find their way into this German essence, as one can also see from this just how little account is taken of the actual meaning of this German essence, this spirit. Take, for example, the writer of “The Life of Jesus” — Ernest Renan — he wrote in a corresponding way even during the Franco-Prussian War about German essence to David Friedrich Strauß, who wrote about German essence. Strangely, the Frenchman, Ernest Renan, wrote; he says that at a certain age he realized what this German essence actually means. And he makes an interesting comparison. He says that after he had absorbed the French character in his education, he approached the German character through Goethe and Herder, and it was as if he encountered realities instead of mere concepts, whereas before he had only seen a lot of faded paper flowers. And then he compares the height of German intellectual life, which has been revealed to him in this way, by saying that everything he got to know outside of this German essence seems to him, well, like elementary mathematics to differential and potential mathematics. We shall see in a moment how such a mind itself utilizes, in terms of feeling, what has come to it through contact with the German essence.","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":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p075","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p075"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p075","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p075","passage_number":75,"text":"Aber man hat nicht immer dieses deutsche Wesen so angesehen! Und es wäre gerade interessant, zu sehen, welche Geister versucht haben, sich in dieses Deutsche Wesen hineinzufinden, wie man auch gerade daran sehen kann, wie wenig Rechnung getragen wird der eigentlichen Bedeutung dieses deutschen Wesens, dieses Geistes. Sagen wir zum Beispiel, der Schreiber des «Lebens Jesu» — Ernest Renan -, er hat in einer entsprechenden Weise sogar während des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges über deutsches Wesen geschrieben an David Friedrich Strauß, der über deutsches Wesen schrieb. Merkwürdig schrieb ja der Franzose, Ernest Renan; er sagt, er sei in einem gewissen Lebensalter gewahr geworden, was eigentlich dieses deutsche Wesen bedeute. Und er macht einen interessanten Vergleich. Er sagt, dass er, nachdem er französisches Wesen in seine Bildung aufgenommen hat, an das deutsche Wesen durch Goethe, durch Herder herangetreten ist, da war es ihm, wie wenn er anstelle von lauter Begriffen Wirklichkeiten treffen würde, während er früher nur eine Menge von vergilbten Papierblumen gesehen hätte. Und dann vergleicht er die Höhe des deutschen Geisteslebens, die ihm so aufgegangen ist, die vergleicht er dadurch, dass er sagt: Alles dasjenige, was er außer diesem deutschen Wesen kennenlernte, das komme ihm vor, nun ja, wie die Elementar-Mathematik zur Differential- und Potential-Mathematik. - Wir werden gleich nachher sehen, wie ein solcher Geist selbst empfindungsmäßig verwertet dasjenige, was ihm so durch die Berührung mit dem deutschen Wesen gekommen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p075"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p075"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":230,"en_words":237,"ratio":1.03,"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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p075"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Jesus"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":1.03,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. A name the German carries is absent here (or a name appears here that the German does not carry). Two things cause this and they need telling apart: the translation really drops or reassigns what the original distinguishes, OR the paragraph alignment paired the wrong passages. `bead_confidence` does NOT settle which: this corpus's embedding aligner pairs topically-related paragraphs at full confidence, and a sampled high-confidence mismatch proved to be a wrong pairing. Read the German passages listed and confirm they are counterparts BEFORE drawing any conclusion about the translation."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}