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In the last analysis, what natural science produces theoretically by extending its observations from the present back into earlier ages can only properly be completed by man's self-contemplation, which leads to a real world-recollection, a world-memory. Otherwise, we shall always be condemned to fall into curious errors when we construct hypothetical theories of world-evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p038","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Der Inhalt der Erinnerungsvorstellung weist uns von selbst auf die richtige Stelle in der Zeit hin, So ist es auch, wenn wir den Organismus in der richtigen Weise durchschauen, daß jeder einzelne Teil in ihm in der Tat auf die Zeit hinweist, die in irgendeinem Punkte der Weltentwickelung in Betracht kommt. Es gibt im Grunde genommen keine andere Möglichkeit, das, was uns die Naturwissenschaft gibt, indem sie ihre Beobachtungen aus der Gegenwart gedankenhaft in frühere Zustände hinein ausdehnt, in der richtigen Weise zu ergänzen als diese. Selbstschau des Menschen, die zu einer wirklichen Welterinnerung, zu einem Weltgedächtnis wird. 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