6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

GA 72/1917-11-30/p018 ·1917-11-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Those who study contemporary history know that so-called reasonable people, people who have formed their opinions based on an apparent pursuit of the facts, believed they could say with complete expertise when this war broke out: Given the general economic and social conditions that have now developed in humanity as a social structure, this war cannot last longer than four, at most six months. It was truly not insignificant people who chose this judgment, which they believed to be deeply rooted in a proper view of what a connoisseur of the circumstances could observe.

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