{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p107","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What do the French need? What do the French need today if they want to characterize their relationship to the German essence? Well, perhaps one could refer to one of their youngest poets to avoid doing them an injustice. What do the French want? They have been so accustomed to their nature being everywhere in Europe, just as the Germans were accustomed to their nature living in the Germans themselves, just as the Germans were accustomed to the way they felt the power, the driving force of what, for example, also lived in this world view of German idealism, up to Lessing, until they had to free themselves, the Germans, [so] these French were so accustomed that their nature lived everywhere in Europe. And after that, they believed that nothing could actually be done without what they did and what they produced intellectually, that everything had to come from them, that they had to be the cause of everything. In a very interesting and witty poem, Rostand, one of their own poets, recently illustrated how the French – that is, his own – national character can be compared to the cock crowing in the morning; and when the cock crows, the sun rises. And because the sun rises when the cock crows, the Frenchman believes that with his crowing he makes the sun rise. So he says to himself: If I don't crow, the sun can't rise!","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/p107","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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Was brauchen die Franzosen heute, wenn sie charakterisieren wollen ihr Verhältnis zum deutschen Wesen? Nun, man könnte vielleicht auf einen ihrer jüngsten Dichter hinweisend etwas von ihnen selber anführen, um ihnen nicht unrecht zu tun. Was wollen die Franzosen? Sie sind ja so gewöhnt gewesen, [so] wie die Deutschen sich frei gemacht haben — wie sie gefühlt haben in sich die Kraft, die Triebkraft dessen, was zum Beispiel auch in diesem Weltenbilde des Deutschen Idealismus lebte, bis zu Lessing herauf, bis sie sich frei machen mussten, die Deutschen -, [so] sind diese Franzosen so gewöhnt gewesen, dass ihr Wesen überall in Europa lebte. Und danach glaubten sie, dass es ohne das, was sie taten und geistig hervorgebracht haben, eigentlich gar nicht gehe, dass alles von ihnen kommen müsse, dass sie zu allem die Ursache bilden müssten. Ihr eigener Dichter Rostand hat in der neueren Zeit in einem ganz. interessanten, witzigen Poem das dargestellt, wie der französische - das heißt, sein eigener — Volks-Charakter damit zu vergleichen ist, dass der Hahn am Morgen kräht; und wenn der Hahn kräht, dann geht die Sonne auf. Und weil eben die Sonne aufgeht, wenn der Hahn kräht, da glaubt der Franzose, dass er mit seinem Krähen die Sonne aufgehen lasse. 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