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I will point out just one fact: The person who, in the sense of mere external natural science, fully recognizes its methods for [spiritual] science, even when they are applied in an outstanding way, as for example by Oscar Hertwig, who thus observes the external bodily life of man, he follows, among other things, for example, how the bodily life of a person leads back to the bodily life of the parents, grandparents and so on. One speaks of the inheritance of certain characteristics. Whenever we speak of heredity in the field of natural science today, we always have the view that we inherit something, but that in what we inherit as a body, the germs for the development of the I, for example, are also contained. It is said that, as the I develops into it, self-awareness, the I, arises in the course of life on the basis of the inherited characteristics. It is quite impossible for a different view of the matter to be formed while remaining on the ground of mere natural science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180211p01.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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But if you go through the spiritual path, you come to recognize in the soul and spiritual realm that the belief that the air comes from the child's body, as it develops according to the inherited characteristics from the parents, the I, the self, that this corresponds exactly to the belief that the air comes from the lungs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p032","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180211p01.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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In this way one learns to recognize that just as air enters the lungs from the outside, this I enters from a spiritual world into that which comes from the father and mother, that which is physically inherited. Just as the air does not disappear when it leaves the lungs, so this self, which has just as little to do with the life of the body as the lungs have to do with the air, passes through the gate of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p033","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180211p01.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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Anyone who is aware of how what we do in a certain sense in our ordinary mental life depends on the physiognomy of the body – by which I mean the inner structure of the body – will be able to imagine that the human being lives out his or her life in the inherited formations of the body, but the basis is always the inherited form. This inherited form, which in turn can shape the substance out of its structural forces from what we take in during our lives until we reach sexual maturity, so that this substance, which in turn passes on the inheritance to the offspring, now contains the form. This sentence, which spiritual science has to add to science: that only the form is inherited from the ancestors and that the form is inherited by the descendants through the substance, provides a supplement to natural science. 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Ich will nur auf einen Umstand hinweisen: Derjenige, welcher im Sinne der bloß äußeren Naturwissenschaft, deren Methoden voll anerkannt werden für die [Geistes-]Wissenschaft, auch, wenn sie in hervorragender Weise angewendet werden, wie zum Beispiel durch Oscar Hertwig, welcher so das äußere Leibesleben des Menschen betrachtet, der verfolgt unter anderem zum Beispiel, wie das Leibesleben eines Menschen zurückführt auf das Leibesleben der Eltern, der Großeltern und so weiter, Man spricht von der Vererbung gewisser Eigenschaften. Man hat immer, wenn man auf dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaft heute von Vererbung spricht, man hat immer die Anschauung, dass man da irgendetwas ererbt, aber dass in dem, was man da als Leib ererbt, auch die Keime drinnen liegen zum Beispiel zur Ausgestaltung des Ich. Man spricht davon, dass, indem sich das Ich hineinentwickelt, auf Grundlage der ererbten Eigenschaften sich im Laufe des Lebens einstelle das Selbstbewusstsein, das Ich. Es ist ganz unmöglich, dass, solange man auf dem Boden der bloßen Naturwissenschaft bleibt, eine andere Ansicht über die Sache sich bildet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p031"},{"locus":"GA 71b/1918-02-11/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Allein für denjenigen, welcher auf die geschilderte Weise die wahre Seele von ihrem Spiegelbilde, dem gewöhnlichen Seelenleben, unterscheiden lernt, ist eine solche Betrachtung, wie sie die Naturwissenschaft heute bietet, so, wie wenn jemand erklären wollte: Der Mensch steht durch seine Lunge mit der Luft in Beziehung, und in der Lunge wäre der Ursprung der Luft, die der Mensch aus- und einatmet, die Luft käme aus der Lunge und ginge dahin zurück. - Ein solcher Mensch gäbe sich der Täuschung hin, als ob das, was Luft ist, mit der Lunge selbst in irgendeinem wesenhaften Zusammenhange steht, während doch die Luft in unserer Umgebung ist, während sie doch gesucht werden muss außerhalb des Menschen. Ist man in der Lage, diese Verhältnisse richtig zu durchschauen, so wird man selbstverständlich nicht in der Lunge den Ursprung der Luft suchen. Man kommt aber, wenn man den geistigen Weg durchmacht, dazu, auf seelisch-geistigem Gebiete zu erkennen, dass der Glaube, aus dem Leibe des Kindes heraus, wie es sich nach den vererbten Merkmalen von den Eltern her entwickelt, komme auch das Ich, das Selbst, dass dieses genau entspricht dem, wenn man glaubt, in der Lunge sei der Ursprung der Luft zu finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p032"},{"locus":"GA 71b/1918-02-11/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Man lernt nämlich erkennen durch geisteswissenschaftliche Methoden, dass das Ich nichts ist, das aus dem Leibe entstehen kann, sondern man lernt erkennen die Selbstständigkeit des Ich, lernt erkennen das Hinzukommen des Ich zu dem, was von Vater und Mutter stammt. Diese Dinge müssen heute im Besonderen scharf hervorgehoben werden, aus dem Grunde, weil die entgegengesetzte Vorstellung so tief in den Denkgewohnheiten und Erkenntnisgewohnheiten der Gegenwart liegt, dass das, was man vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkte aus sagen muss, manchem ganz absurd erscheint. Dennoch kann und muss es gesagt werden, wenn man den Ausgangspunkt wählt nicht vom dilettantischen Innenbeobachten, sondern von einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Beobachtung aus. Da lernt man erkennen, dass ebenso, wie die Luft von außen in die Lunge geht, dieses Ich aus einer geistigen Welt in das hineinfährt, was von Vater und Mutter stammt, was physisch ererbt ist. Ebenso, wie die Luft aus der Lunge herausgeht und nicht weg ist, wenn sie aus der Lunge herausgekommen ist, so geht wiederum durch die Pforte des Todes dieses Ich durch, das ebenso wenig mit dem Leibesleben zu tun hat und ebenso viel mit dem Leibesleben zu tun hat, wie die Lunge mit der Luft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p033"},{"locus":"GA 71b/1918-02-11/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Verfolgt man dann den Weg weiter, dann kommt man in der Tat, gerade mit Bezug auf den berührten Punkt, über das Leibesleben zu ganz bestimmten, jetzt wirklich wissenschaftlichen Begriffen, denen gegenüber sogar die voll gewürdigten Ergebnisse der Naturwissenschaft dilettantisch sind. Man kommt dazu, indem man unterscheiden lernt dasjenige, was innerlich geistiges Ich ist, von dem, was ererbt ist. Man kommt dazu, sich wirkliche Vorstellungen zu bilden über das, was man eigentlich von den Voreltern ererbt. Diese Dinge können heute nur berührt werden; ich will Sie ja nur anregen und kann nichts Erschöpfendes geben. Das, was wir ererben, ist im tiefsten Sinne unsere Leibesgestalt selber. Wer da weiß, wie das, was wir im gewissen Sinne im gewöhnlichen Seelenleben verrichten, von der Physiognomie des Leibes - darunter verstehe ich das innere Gefüge des Leibes - abhängt, der wird sich schon vorstellen können, dass der Mensch sich in den ererbten Gestaltungen des Leibes auslebt im Leben, aber die Grundlage ist immer die ererbte Gestalt. Diese ererbte Gestalt, welche wiederum aus ihren Strukturkräften heraus den Stoff gestalten kann aus dem, was wir im Leben aufnehmen bis zur Geschlechtsreife, sodass diesem Stoff, der wiederum auf die Nachkommen hin die Vererbung leitet, nun innewohnt die Gestaltung. Dieser Satz, den die Geisteswissenschaft der Wissenschaft hinzuzufügen hat: dass von den Voreltern ererbt wird [nur] die Gestalt auf die Nachkommen, vererbt wird die Gestalt durch den Stoff, der gibt eine Ergänzung der Naturwissenschaft. Er wird in Bezug auf eine gewisse Sache sehr Aufschluss gebend sein über die Beziehung zu den höheren Wesensgliedern des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-02-11/p034"}],"beads":[{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[33],"to":[33],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[34],"to":[34],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}