{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77a/1921-07-27/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In response to these greetings, I would like to say that I am deeply gratified by them for two fundamental reasons that inspire me in all that I represent of what I call anthroposophical spiritual science. Of course, this anthroposophical spiritual science is still much attacked today, but it will be able to go the way it is meant to go through its inner strength if, among other things, two contemporary forces in particular stand by its side. And it is precisely from these two contemporary forces that your friendly greetings come. Firstly, from those who want to devote themselves to the cultivation of scientific life, and secondly, from the youth. Now, I am deeply convinced that, among the many different conditions that must be met if anthroposophical spiritual science is to go its way, two things are needed above all. The first is that people learn to recognize that this spiritual science, for its part, wants to work out of the strictest scientific spirit. And because it wants to do that, this welcome is particularly valuable to me. And secondly, I am deeply convinced that — however some people who are in the present life may still think about this anthroposophical spiritual science today — what is even more important is how young people think about it. For it is on what young people bring into human development in the coming decades that it will depend on whether we find our way out of the numerous forces of decline and into the forces of awakening. Working towards this goal should also be the aim of anthroposophical spiritual science. It must therefore be particularly satisfying for it to be welcomed by young people. And believe me – believe it, my honored greeters, and believe it, all of you sitting here: the anthroposophical spiritual science will never shy away from justified criticism, from what is above all a completely critical confrontation with itself. On the contrary, it will derive the greatest satisfaction from it when this criticism arises out of a real urge for knowledge and out of the urge to work practically on the goals of human development. Anthroposophical spiritual science is at the beginning of its development; it needs true and honest criticism. It does not need blind trust and cannot really use blind trust. It needs thinking evaluators. May these thinking judges grow up from the youth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Knowledge of Nature and Knowledge of the Mind","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-27","location":null,"word_count":399,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p004","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 Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 77a/1921-07-27/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Wenn von meiner Seite — das möchte ich hier in bezug auf diese Begrüßungen ganz besonders vorbringen -, wenn von meiner Seite mit einer tiefen Befriedigung auf diese freundlichen Grüße geantwortet wird, so geschieht das aus zwei Grundüberzeugungen heraus, die mich beseelen bei aller Vertretung dessen, was ich die anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft nenne. Gewiß, heute wird diese anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft noch viel angegriffen, aber sie wird den Weg gehen können, den sie durch ihre innere Kraft zu gehen bestimmt ist, wenn ihr unter anderem namentlich zwei zeitgenössische Kräfte zur Seite stehen. Und gerade von diesen zwei zeitgenössischen Kräften kommt ja Ihre freundliche Begrüßung her. Sie kommt erstens von seiten derjenigen, die sich widmen wollen der Pflege wissenschaftlichen Lebens, und sie kommt von der Jugend. Nun bin ich eben tief überzeugt, daß unter den anderen manigfaltigen Bedingungen, die da sein müssen, wenn anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft ihren Weg wird gehen sollen, zwei Dinge vor allem notwendig sein werden. Das ist, daß man einsehen lerne, daß diese Geisteswissenschaft ihrerseits aus dem strengsten wissenschaftlichen Geiste heraus arbeiten will. Und weil sie das will, ist mir diese Begrüßung ganz besonders wertvoll. Und zweitens bin ich tief davon überzeugt, daß — wie auch mancher, der im gegenwärtigen Leben steht, heute noch über diese anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft denken mag —, daß wichtiger noch ist, wie die Jugend darüber denkt. Denn von demjenigen, was die Jugend in den nächsten Jahrzehnten wird hineintragen in die Menschheitsentwicklung, wird es ja abhängen, ob wir wieder den Weg herausfinden aus den so zahlreich vorhandenen Niedergangskräften zu den Aufgangskräften. Mitzuarbeiten gerade an diesem Ziel soll ja auch das Bestreben anthroposophischer Geisteswissenschaft sein. Ihr muß es daher eine besondere Befriedigung gewähren, wenn sie von der Jugend begrüßt wird. Und glauben Sie es mir — glauben Sie es, meine verehrten Begrüßer, und glauben Sie es alle, die Sie hier sitzen: Vor demjenigen, was berechtigte Kritik ist, was vor allen Dingen ein vollkommen kritisches Sich-Gegenüberstellen gegenüber dieser anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft ist, vor dem wird diese letztere niemals zurückschrecken. Im Gegenteil: Sie wird die größte Befriedigung daran haben, wenn aus einem wirklichen Erkenntnisdrange und aus dem Drange, an den Zielen der Menschheitsentwicklung praktisch mitzuarbeiten, diese Kritik kommt. Anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft ist im Anfang ihrer Entwicklung; sie braucht wahrhafte und ehrliche Kritik. Sie braucht kein blindes Vertrauen und kann eigentlich ein blindes Vertrauen nicht brauchen. Sie braucht denkende Beurteiler. Mögen ihr diese denkenden Beurteiler gerade aus der Jugend heraus erwachsen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":396,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p004"}],"english":["GA 77a/1921-07-27/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":396,"en_words":399,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6886,"original_word_count":6580,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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