{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 73a/1921-01-14/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When one has a clear understanding of human morphology, the first thing one does is to place it in the right relationship to the animal world. Then one says to oneself: if one goes back in the series of time, one sees that what has become of the human head is the most important transformation of its earlier organization. This can be traced back to earlier animal forms – I cannot go into the details now, so the whole thing will seem paradoxical – whereas the human form as a whole must be seen in such a way that the rest of the formation, which is attached to the head, has arisen under conditions that affect the overall form of man quite differently than the modern environment affects the overall form of the animal. Once we understand these relationships, we will relate the human form to the animal world in a completely different way than is the case today. Then, something else comes into play: when one looks at the human head and sees the particular relationships between the soft and bony parts, and compares this, especially in their position, with the relationships between the soft and bony parts in the attached limbs, then one comes to form ideas about the inner workings of the laws of formation in the human organism. And one comes to realize that the human head is not only in a continuous development, but that it carries something in itself, which one initially has to see not as an evolution, but as a devolution, as a retrogressive development, which is only maintained by the fact that this head organism is connected to the rest of the human organism and is maintained by it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. The Relationships Between Spiritual Science and Individual Academic Subjects III","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-14","location":null,"word_count":288,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/73a/1921-01-14/p019","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA073a/English/SOL2024/19210114p01.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 hat man zurückzuführen auf frühere Tierformen - ich kann das einzelne jetzt nicht ausführen, daher wird sich das Ganze paradox ausnehmen -, dagegen muß man die ganze Menschengestalt so ansehen, daß die übrige Bildung, die dem Haupt angehängt ist, unter Verhältnissen entstanden ist, die durchaus anders auf diese Gesamtgestalt des Menschen wirken, als aus der heutigen Umgebung auf die Gesamtgestalt des Tieres gewirkt wird. Wenn man diese Verhältnisse durchschaut, wird man die menschliche Gestalt in ein ganz anderes Verhältnis zur Tierwelt bringen, als das heute der Fall ist. Dann kommt noch als zweites etwas anderes hinzu: Wenn man das menschliche Haupt nun durchschaut, gerade die besonderen Verhältnisse der Weichteile zu den Knochenteilen, und dies vergleicht, namentlich auch in ihrer Lage, mit den Verhältnissen der Weichteile zu den Knochenteilen in den anhängenden Gliedmaßen, dann kommt man dazu, sich Vorstellungen zu machen über das innere Wirken der Bildungsgesetze im menschlichen Organismus. 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