{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-05-03/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is a prejudice today that the human soul has not changed since the time when it can be observed. Oh, it has changed so much. If you go back with a spiritual scientific view to the first period after the great glacial epoch of earthly development, which reached its peak in particular in ancient Indian culture, you encounter a completely different kind of mankind, from which impulses must have emerged that are quite different from those of later times; we encounter a type of human being that remained capable of development into old age in a way that we are only capable of development in the first years of childhood. We are capable of development so that we experience - we still experience it in dullness - what occurs at the change of teeth, for example. We experience the physical in the soul. How does the young person experience sexual maturity, the physical body in the spiritual soul! But in our time, this ends in the twenties. Certain precocious children – one dare not even say this today – even believe that this dependency of the spiritual soul on the physical body ends. It is believed that one is even more mature at twenty for writing “below the line” than at twenty. The dependency on the physical body also lasts until then. But then it stops. I do not mean the external dependency that occurs in the fatigue of the body, in the greying of the hair, in the wrinkles of the face - that is external dependency.","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":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p042","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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Wir sind da entwicklungsfähig, sodass wir miterleben - wir erleben es noch in Dumpfheit mit -, was im Zahnwechsel eintritt zum Beispiel, wir erleben das Leiblich-Körperliche im Seelischen mit. Wie lebt der Mensch in der Jugend die Geschlechtsreife mit, das Leiblich-Körperhafte im Geistig-Seelischen! Aber das hört für unsere Zeit auf in den Zwanzigerjahren. Gewisse frühreife Kinder - das darf man nur heute gar nicht sagen - glauben sogar, dass es noch cher aufhört, diese Abhängigkeit des Geistig-Seelischen von dem Leiblich-Physischen. Zum Schreiben «unter dem Strich» glaubt man sich ja noch früher reif als mit zwanzig Jahren. Bis daher dauert auch die Abhängigkeit von dem Leiblich-Körperhaften. Dann aber hört das auf. Ich meine nicht die äußerliche Abhängigkeit, die in der Ermüdung des Leibes auftritt, in der Ergrauung der Haare, in den Runzeln des Gesichtes - das ist äußerliche Abhängigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p042"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-03/p042"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":240,"en_words":259,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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