{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p109","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The French need a new delusion. The Russians need a new mission. The English – well, one really doesn't want to do them an injustice. What should one say so as not to do them an injustice? They declaim to the world: for the sake of the violation of Belgium's neutrality, for the sake of justice and democracy, we must undertake this war to the point of destroying the German essence; for these Germans are disgraceful people. They preach the principle of might over right. It is likely that one only forgets, as a result of a particularly refined education, that the English minister who decreed this – only recently – that the phrase “might over right” comes from the English philosopher, English utilitarian philosopher Thomas Hobbes. But: “might over right” – and England has adhered to this phrase for centuries. [gap in the transcript] as a professor in England himself, where he said: freedom and democracy, that is something that cannot be united, which should be advocated after the last English history, but that Great Britain's expansion [gap in the transcript], he says, is also a truth, also a practical truth, as the English world view must strive for. Yes, what can you say? “Might is right” – since Thomas Hobbes this principle has been winding its way through English history, concealing the real reasons why England tramples underfoot the entire mission of the German people. Yes, one would not want to do such things an injustice, but one must say: the English need a new lie to drown out that which cannot be compensated for.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Die Engländer - nun, man möchte ihnen wirklich nicht unrecht tun. Was soll man sagen, um ihnen nicht unrecht zu tun? Sie deklamieren in die Welt hinaus: Um der Verletzung der Neutralität Belgiens willen, für Recht und Demokratie müssen wir bis zur Vernichtung des deutschen Wesens diesen Krieg unternehmen; denn diese Deutschen sind schändliche Menschen. Sie predigen den Grundsatz: Macht geht vor Recht. - Man vergisst nur wahrscheinlich, wie aus einer besonders feinen Bildung heraus der englische Minister, der dies dekretiert - erst wieder jüngst -, dass der Satz «Macht geht vor Recht» von dem englischen Philosophen, englischen Utilitäts-Philosophen Thomas Hobbes stammt. Aber: «Macht geht vor Recht» - und England hat sich jahrhundertelang an diesen Satz gehalten. [Lücke in der Mitschrift] als Professor in England selber gehalten hat, wo er sagte: Freiheit und Demokratie, das ist etwas, was man nicht vereinen kann, was nach der letzten englischen Geschichte vertreten werden soll, sondern dass Großbritanniens Expansion [Lücke in der Mitschrift], spricht er aus, auch eine Wahrheit, auch eine praktische Wahrheit, wie es das englische Weltbild anstreben muss. Ja, was soll man sagen? «Macht geht vor Recht», seit Thomas Hobbes schlängelt es sich wie ein Grundsatz durch die Geschichte Englands, um zu verdecken die eigentlichen Gründe, die England hat, um in den Staub zu treten die ganze Mission des deutschen Volkes. Mit solchen Dingen - ja, man möchte ihnen ja nicht unrecht tun, aber man muss doch sagen: Die Engländer brauchen eine neue Lüge, um zu übertönen dasjenige, was nicht ausgeglichen werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p108"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p109"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":263,"en_words":267,"ratio":1.02,"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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