{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p082","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What does he mean by the “Russian sheep's clothing”? Well, Herzen said it: In what this European culture, this European spiritual life has brought forth, there cannot be anything redemptive, anything salvific for humanity; but that which is salvific for humanity is the Russian peasant; that is, the one who, in all his originality, contains within him that which must flood the whole of Western and Central Europe. And this appears to be so deeply ingrained in Russian souls, especially in the most Russian of Russians, for example in Dostoyevsky, the great artist – whom we want to acknowledge in terms of his skill – that it is increasingly apparent in his work, when we take a closer look at it, that he regards German culture in particular as decrepit and obsolete, and that he already sees Russia as destined to be the redeemer. Basically, the delusional rage that is now to be poured out over Europe is nothing more than the brutal expression of this tendency, which has even found expression in great Russian writers; however, care has been taken to ensure that the good Germans do not become too aware of this, which, I might say, has always lived and breathed between the lines of Russian intellectual life! And so it comes about that - and those who know me better know how much I appreciate Tolstoy - but what is in Tolstoy, especially in such older works as “Anna Karenina” and so on, that shows how he - Tolstoy - always aimed to depict the German character in such a way that it appears decrepit and inferior.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Und das erscheint so festgepfropft in russischen Seelen, gerade in dem russischten Russen, zum Beispiel in Dostojewski, dem großen Künstler - den wir anerkennen wollen in Bezug auf sein Können -, immer mehr und mehr in seinem Werk schon zutage tritt, wenn wir es genau kennen, dass er insbesondere die deutsche Kultur als ein Greisenhaftes, Abgelebtes betrachtet, und das Russentum schon jetzt als berufen findet als Erlöser. - Im Grunde genommen ist dasjenige, was sich jetzt als Kampfwahn über Europa ergießen soll, nichts anderes als der brutale Ausdruck für diese Richtung, die sogar in großen russischen Schriftstellern zum Ausdrucke kam; allerdings, man hat ja dafür gesorgt, dass die guten Deutschen nicht gar zu stark aufmerksam wurden auf dieses, was - ich möchte sagen - immer zwischen den Zeilen des russischen Geisteslebens lebte und webte! Und so kommt es denn, dass - und diejenigen, die mich genauer kennen, wissen, wie sehr ich Tolstoi schätze — aber dasjenige, was in Tolstoi ist, besonders auch in solch älteren Werken, wie «Anna Karenina» und so weiter, das zeigt denn doch, wie er überall - Tolstoi - darauf ausgegangen ist, das deutsche Wesen so darzustellen, dass es greisenhaft, minderwertig sich zeigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p082"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p082"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.01,"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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