{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many will object: this science, which you describe as anthroposophy, is, as it were, suspended in mid-air; one is not standing on the firm ground of fact. My dear ladies and gentlemen! I have tried to show you today how anthroposophy can only be properly understood if it is considered in the context of the whole process of world evolution and the place of human beings in this process. If we look at what is around us here on earth, we have to say of everything: it needs a foundation on which it stands. If we were to hold an earthly object in the air, it would fall down. That which surrounds us in our immediate environment needs a foundation; that which surrounds us in our immediate knowledge of the life between birth and death, the facts of the external sense world and the combining intellect, needs to have such a foundation in order to exist spiritually. At the same moment when we look out from earthly life into the life of the world, it would be foolish to say that the earth needs a foundation on which it rests in order to exist in the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Dasjenige, was uns als nächste Umgebung umgibt, braucht eine Unterlage; dasjenige, was uns als nächstes Wissen für das Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod umgibt, braucht der Tatsachen der äußeren Sinneswelt und des kombinierenden Verstandes, um geistig eine solche Unterlage zu haben. In demselben Moment, wo wir vom Erdenleben in das Weltenleben hinausschauen, wäre es töricht zu sagen, die Erde braucht eine Unterlage, worauf sie ruht, um in der Welt vorhanden sein zu können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p046"}],"english":["GA 80b/1922-02-12/p047"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":176,"en_words":197,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8163,"original_word_count":7949,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19220212p01.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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