{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-05-03/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Wilson points out that those who have completely false views about the development of the Americans are those who, like the English who settled in America's east, look at this development of the American people. Wilson rejects this English way of looking at things; he also rejects the one that comes more from the southern states; he points out that what has made the American an American, what is at the heart of the history of the American people, lies in what emerged when the American East advanced against the West , when this mixture of peoples, formed from Scandinavians, English, Germans, Russians, Latin peoples and so on, when this mixture of peoples moved from the east to the American west, that which had not yet been cultivated, cultivated, overcame the old wilderness. Not what was brought from Europe, but what was appropriated in the struggle with the wilderness by a mixture of peoples, that is the starting point, that made the American, whom he, as one can feel, accurately describes, with his adventurous spirit for everything that quickly arises and is quickly seized upon, with the homelessness that awakens plans that are not tied to a homeland but can be carried out anywhere, and so on, and so on. The cattle driver, he says, not the statesman, the woodsman, the hunter, not the statesman, is what the American has produced from the mixture of peoples in the advance from the east to the west in the course of the nineteenth century.","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":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p020","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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Diese englische Art der Betrachtung weist Wilson ab; er weist auch diejenige ab, die mehr von den südlichen Staaten kommt; er weist darauf hin, dass dasjenige, was den Amerikaner zum Amerikaner gemacht hat, was den Nerv der Geschichte des amerikanischen Volkes bildet, in demjenigen liegt, was aufgekommen ist, was aufgetaucht ist, als der amerikanische Osten gegen den Westen vorgerückt ist, als dieses Völkergemisch, das sich da gebildet hat aus Skandinaviern, Engländern, Deutschen, Russen, lateinischen Völkern und so weiter, als dieses Völkergemisch sich von dem Osten nach dem amerikanischen Westen bewegte, dasjenige, was noch nicht urbar war, urbar machte, überwand die alte Wildnis. Nicht das, meinte er, was mitgebracht worden ist aus Europa, sondern was im Kampfe mit der Wildnis von einem Völkergemisch angeeignet worden ist, das bildet den Ausgangspunkt, das machte den Amerikaner, den er, wie man fühlen kann, treffsicher schildert, mit seinen beweglichen Augen, mit der abenteuerlichen Lust für alles das, was an abenteuerlichen Plänen schnell auftaucht und schnell ergriffen wird, mit der Heimatlosigkeit, die Pläne erweckt, die nicht an eine Heimat gebunden sind, sondern überall ausgeführt werden können, und so weiter, und so weiter. Der Viehtreiber, sagt er, nicht der Staatsmann, der Waldausreuter, der Jäger, nicht der Staatsmann habe dasjenige hervorgebracht, was aus dem Völkergemisch im Vorrücken von dem Osten nach dem Westen den Amerikaner im Laufe des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts erst gebildet habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p020"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-03/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":259,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.97,"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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