{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-05-03/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Karl Lamprecht attempts to go beyond the old English and Rankean views of history, which rely only on external documents. He tries to turn his attention to the inner driving forces of historical development, to that which cannot be found merely in external records, but which can be found if one wants to penetrate into the soul life of the people, seeking the deeper forces that condition historical development. Karl Lamprecht comes to many interesting conclusions. He says: If we look back at the earliest development of the German people, we find that by the third century A.D. a peculiar kind of emotional power and its effects had developed in the soul of this people. If we examine the various areas in which these powers were expressed in this ancient time, whether in the , in the military, in the state, in the social sphere, in the artistic sphere, in a primitive way, as it was then, one must say: the people of the German nation lived in such a way back then that they shaped their social life and their social work out of a certain symbolist, emblem-forming disposition. Not only did they try to depict world events in symbols in primitive art, they also lived from person to person in such a way that the symbolic nature shaped these experiences. For example, one identified with the leaders of the people, seeing in these leaders of the people symbols of the whole nation, and this, says Karl Lamprecht, meant that at that time what can be described as the military-comradely principle emerged in the moral, in the social togetherness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Man and the Historical and Moral Life of Humanity according to the Results of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-03","location":null,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19180503p01.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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Er kommt dazu, zu sagen: Wenn man zurückblickt auf die älteste Entwicklung des deutschen Volkes, so findet man bis ins dritte nachchristliche Jahrhundert in der Seele dieses Volkes entwickelt eine eigentümliche Art der Gemütskräfte und ihrer Wirkungen; untersucht man die verschiedenen Gebiete, auf denen sich diese Kräfte darlebten, in dieser alten Zeit, darlebten auf moralischem, kriegerischem, auf staatlichem, auf sozialem Gebiet, auf künstlerischem Gebiet, primitiv, wie es damals war, so muss man sagen: Die Menschen des deutschen Volkes lebten dazumal so, dass sie ihr soziales Zusammensein und ihr soziales Wirken gestalteten aus einer gewissen symbolistischen sinnbilderbildenden Gemütsart heraus. Nicht nur, dass man versuchte, in den primitiven Kunsterzeugnissen die Weltgeschehnisse in Sinnbildern darzustellen, man lebte sozusagen von Mensch zu Mensch auch so, dass die sinnbildlerische Gemütsart diese Erlebnisse gestaltete. Man stellte zum Beispiel sich zu den Führern des Volkes, dass man in diesen Führern des Volkes sah Sinnbilder des ganzen Volkstums, und das bedingt, meint Karl Lamprecht, dass dazumal auftauchte im moralischen, im sozialen Zusammensein dasjenige, was man als militärisch-kameradschaftliches Prinzip bezeichnen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p012"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-03/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":247,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9369,"original_word_count":9033,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/SOL2024/19180503p01.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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