{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p110","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Russians need a new delusion; the French need a new conceit; the English need a new lie. The Italians – yes, a very outstanding man told me even before the Italian war broke out: “Italy needs this war!” There are people, of course, who are not so naive as to have believed that Italy could not join the Entente in this war. Italy needs this war; we must have this war; the Italians have become lethargic, sluggish and lazy; they are actually on the road to the abyss - said this important political figure at the time - and need to have something that will shake them up again, that will awaken them to life, otherwise they will become completely rotten and sluggish! What do these Italians need? These Italians needed a new sensation in order to have something at the same time – just as the French needed imagination, the English needed a new lie, the Russians needed a new delusion, a new mission, so the Italians needed a new saint, something very special! – They truly have a saint, namely, holy egoism – sacro egoismo – which is preached everywhere and on whose altar people are sacrificed. And the apostle of modern Italian nationalism, the hierophant, is Gabriele d'Annunzio! Perhaps history will one day rank him among the buffoons of the mind – that can be said without any national chauvinism. But he will nevertheless stand without dignity as the one who also made sacrifices to this new egoism, the sacro egoismo, which Italy represents and to which they have dedicated themselves, this new saint!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Die Italiener - ja, ein ganz hervorragender Mann sagte mir schon, bevor der italienische Krieg ausgebrochen ist: «Italien braucht diesen Krieg!» Es gibt ja Menschen, die nicht so naiv sind, dass sie geglaubt haben, Italien könnte etwa nicht beitreten der Entente in diesem Kriege. Italien braucht diesen Krieg; wir müssen diesen Krieg haben; die Italiener sind träge, lahm und faul geworden; sie sind eigentlich ganz auf dem Wege nach dem Abgrund - sagte diese bedeutende politische Persönlichkeit dazumal-und müssen etwas haben, was sie wiederum aufrüttelt, was sie wiederum zum Leben erweckt, sonst werden sie ganz faul und träge! Was brauchen diese Italiener? Eine neue Sensation brauchten diese Italiener, um zugleich etwas zu haben - wie die Franzosen die Einbildung, die Engländer eine neue Lüge, die Russen einen neuen Wahn, eine neure Mission brauchten, so die Italiener einen neuen Heiligen, etwas ganz Besonderes! - Sie haben wahrlich einen Heiligen, nämlich den heiligen Egoismus - sacro egoismo -, der überall gepredigt wird und auf dessen Altar geopfert wird. Und der Apostel des Italienertums der Neuzeit, der Hierophant ist Gabriele d’Annunzio! Vielleicht wird die die Geschichte ihn einmal unter die Hanswurste des Geistes einreihen - das kann man ganz ohne nationalen Chauvinismus sagen. Aber er wird trotzdem ohne Würde als derjenige dastehen, der auch diesen neuen Egoismus, dem sacro egoismo, den Italien vertritt, dem sie sich verschrieben haben, diesem neuen Heiligen seine Opfer verrichten!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p109"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p110"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":249,"en_words":268,"ratio":1.08,"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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