{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 78/1921-08-30/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now take a look at how Goethe approached this task, we will notice that he made many attempts to write a kind of metamorphosis of animal organs. He conducted an immeasurable number of studies in order to write such a metamorphosis of animals; but one will not find that any of these studies even remotely approaches what he had achieved with his metamorphosis of plants. And one can also see how Goethe repeatedly began to expand the theory of metamorphosis, at least in the field of osteology. But he always stopped before going any further. All these things remained fragments. He could not reach the point where his thinking, as an inner soul life, would have become so animated that it could also have submerged itself in animality, as in plant life and its transformations. And so, precisely in the study of Goethe, the great question arose about the nature and ways of human cognition in general, and here lies historically — at least for me — one of the roots of anthroposophy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Thinking as Creative Participation in Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Alle diese Dinge sind Fragment geblieben. Er konnte nicht bis zu dem Punkte kommen, wo sich sein Denken als innerliches Seelenleben so verlebendigt hätte, daß es auch hätte untertauchen können in die Tierheit wie in die Pflanzenwesenheit und ihre Verwandlungen. Und so ergab sich gerade beim Studium Goethes die große Frage nach dem Wesen und den Wegen des menschlichen Erkennens überhaupt, und hier liegt geschichtlich — wenigstens für mich — eine der Wurzeln der Anthroposophie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":175,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/78/1921-08-30/p013"}],"english":["GA 78/1921-08-30/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":175,"en_words":175,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5464,"original_word_count":5410,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Anthroposophy: Its Roots of Knowledge and Fruits of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA078/English/SOL2025/19210830p01.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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