2. The Position of Anthroposophy among the Sciences

Man can certainly attain to this and learn to know as his own construction the world which otherwise only confronts him as the world of effects ( Wirkungen). As we, albeit unconsciously, construct for ourselves the form of space out of our human constitution and then, having transformed it, find it again in the world, so we can train ourselves, this time by conscious effort, to draw from out of ourselves the whole gamut of qualities contained in the world, so as to find them again in things, and then again in looking back upon ourselves.