{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-26/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, it is easy to say that Count Hermann Keyserling is not an opponent of anthroposophy. Count Hermann Keyserling himself wanted to prove to me that he was not an opponent of anthroposophy, and that is why he wrote me a long letter a long time ago. But this long letter was written in a handwriting that I could not read; the lines that went across were always crossed by others, the letters were written in a highly sloppy and careless manner, and I really could not finish reading this letter. The person who is able to judge the world and people not according to arbitrary principles but according to essential inner symptoms could say to himself – this writing is of course not the reason I want to give for the underlying facts, but it is a symptom –: this writing, and the way such a letter is brought about, does not provide the human basis for what is attributed to Count Hermann Keyserling from certain quarters. And if you then approach his works, you find something, you find what I now express as my conviction: if Count Hermann Keyserling were to say that he was a very devious opponent and enemy of anthroposoph , dear ladies and gentlemen, I would believe him and I would find it entirely justified, because the person who writes Count Keyserling's books cannot be a follower of and cannot be an objective judge of anthroposophy. But if he says that he is not an opponent, then he is telling an objective untruth. When Count Hermann Keyserling says that he is not an opponent of anthroposophy, to me that says much more about his dishonesty than if he had honestly said that he must be an opponent. I do understand that there must be opponents; but the fact that there are people, numerous people, who today even become fashionable, who simply say the opposite of what is now their inner truth as an outer truth, that goes against the principle of anthroposophy, which looks everywhere for inner truth and not for outer truth, which is then no truth but only an apparent truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Derjenige, der nicht nach willkürlichen Prinzipien, sondern der nach innerlich wesentlichen Symptomen die Welt und die Menschen beurteilen kann, der konnte sich sagen — diese Schrift ist natürlich nicht die Begründung, die ich für die zu Grunde liegenden Fakten geben will, aber sie ist ein Symptom —: diese Schrift, und die Art, einen solchen Brief zustande zu bringen, gibt nicht die menschliche Grundlage ab für dasjenige, was von gewissen Seiten dem Grafen Hermann Keyserling zugeschrieben wird. Und wenn man dann an seine Werke herangeht, dann findet man etwas, dann findet man dasjenige, was ich jetzt für mich als meine Überzeugung ausspreche: Wenn der Graf Hermann Keyserling sagen würde, er sei ein ganz abgefeimter Gegner und Feind der Anthroposophie, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, ich würde ihm das glauben und ich würde das ganz gerechtfertigt finden, denn derjenige, der die Bücher des Grafen Keyserling schreibt, kann kein Anhänger und kann kein objektiver Beurteiler der Anthroposophie sein. Wenn er aber doch sagt, er sei kein Gegner, so sagt er eben eine objektive Unwahrheit. Wenn der Graf Hermann Keyserling sagt, er sei kein Gegner der Anthroposophie, so ist das für mich viel mehr für seine Unwahrhaftigkeit ausschlaggebend, als wenn er ehrlich sagen würde, er müsse ein Gegner sein. Denn daß es Gegner geben muß, das sehe ich ein; daß es aber Leute gibt, zahlreiche Leute, die heute sogar Mode werden, welche als äußere Wahrheit einfach das Gegenteil von dem sagen, was nun ihre innere Wahrheit ist, das widerstrebt dem Prinzip der Anthroposophie, daß überall auf die innere und nicht auf die äußere Wahrheit, die dann keine Wahrheit, sondern nur eine Scheinwahrheit ist, gesehen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p020"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-26/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":360,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6068,"original_word_count":6042,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077b/English/SOL2024/19210826a01.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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