{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-05-03/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now compare this kind of personal search by the German scientist with Woodrow Wilson's approach, something extraordinarily interesting emerges. I do not wish to be misunderstood, either way. I do not want what I say to be interpreted in a one-sided chauvinistic way, nor do I want to leave any doubt as to how I actually feel about Woodrow Wilson with regard to what I have to say. I have, dear ladies and gentlemen, characterized the whole nature of Woodrow Wilson before it was as obvious to characterize him as an opponent as it is today, namely long before the events that occurred in July 1914 In a series of lectures which I delivered in Helsingfors before the war, I pointed this out at a time when everything was still full of admiration for this new, great world view of Wilson's, even in our country. What is not admired in this day and age, if one is not pushed aside by some circumstances? When people were still admiring the greatness and novelty of Wilson's world view, I pointed out how limited, how narrow-minded, how incapable of penetrating the true impulses of reality the way of thinking of this personality in particular is, and how infinitely regrettable it is that the impulses of the times have truly not placed a way of thinking of such limitedness in a most important post of modern times for the benefit of humanity. I do not believe, therefore, that I am misunderstood if I attempt in an objective manner to characterize that which is now to characterize in its own way that which, like Karl Lamprecht for his people, Wilson has said for his Americans.","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":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p018","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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Ich habe, sehr verehrte Anwesende, die ganze Art Woodrow Wilsons schon charakterisiert, als es noch nicht so nahe lag, sie gegnerisch zu charakterisieren wie heute, nämlich lange vor den Ereignissen, die hereingebrochen sind mit dem Juli 1914. In einem Vortragszyklus, den ich in Helsingfors vor dem Krieg gehalten habe, habe ich bereits darauf hingewiesen in einer Zeit, als auch bei uns noch alles voll war von Bewunderung für diese neue, großartige Weltanschauung Wilsons. Was bewundert man in der heutigen Zeit nicht, wenn man nicht durch irgendwelche Verhältnisse abgedrängt ist äußerlich von der Bewunderung! Als man noch die Großartigkeit und Neuheit der Weltanschauung Wilsons bewunderte, habe ich darauf hingewiesen, wie beschränkt, wie engherzig, wie nirgends in die wahren Wirklichkeitsimpulse eindringend die Vorstellungsart gerade dieser Persönlichkeit ist und wie unendlich zu bedauern es ist, dass die Zeitimpulse eine Geistesart von solcher Beschränktheit wahrhaftig nicht zum Heil der Menschheit auf einen allerwichtigsten Posten der neueren Zeit gestellt haben. Ich glaube daher nicht, dass ich missverstanden werde, wenn ich in objektiver Weise dasjenige zu charakterisieren versuche, was nun in seiner Art kennzeichnen soll dasjenige, was, wie Karl Lamprecht für sein Volk, Wilson für seine Amerikaner gesagt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p018"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-03/p018"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":282,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","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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