{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Our remote ancestors lived in a region lying to the West of Europe, between Africa and America. Science itself is gradually beginning to admit the existence of a continent there in the far past—a continent to which we give the name of Atlantis. Atlantis was the home of our ancient forefathers whose form was very unlike our own. As I say, science is already beginning to speak of old Atlantis. An article on Atlantis appeared in a magazine entitled *Kosmos*, issued under the direction of Haeckel. True, it only spoke of animals and plants and omitted all mention of human beings, but Spiritual Science is able to speak with greater clarity of what natural science is only now beginning to surmise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-02","location":null,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1907-12-02/p018","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/Singles/19071202p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p018"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/92/1907-12-02/p018","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Sechzehn Vorträge, gehalten in Berlin, Köln und Nürnberg in den Jahren 1904, 1905 und 1907 (Hörernotizen)","evidence_translation":"Sixteen lectures, given in Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg in 1904, 1905 and 1907 (listeners' notes)","evidence_source":"The volume's subtitle as given in the publisher's description, mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 92); the 2022 catalogue's subtitle omits it. 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Wollen wir gleich herangehen an sein Mittelpunktswerk, an die Siegfried-Dichtung, an die Nibelungen-Dichtung. Wollen wir sehen, wie tief sie herausgeschöpft sind aus der Weltenweisheit, so müssen wir anknüpfen an etwas, was die Theosophie zur völligen Klarheit bringt, so widersprechend es der heutigen Wissenschaft auch ist. Unsere weit zurückliegenden Vorfahren bewohnten ein Landgebiet, das gelegen hat im Westen von Europa, zwischen Afrika und Amerika. Sogar die Naturwissenschaft kommt nach und nach schon darauf, daß da einstmals Land war, ein Land, das wir die Atlantis nennen. Da lebten unsere uralten Vorfahren, die freilich ganz anders gestaltet waren. Wie gesagt, heute fängt schon die Naturwissenschaft an, von dieser alten Atlantis zu reden. In einer Zeitschrift, «Kosmos», herausgegeben unter der Ägide Haeckels, wurde ein Aufsatz darüber veröffentlicht. Da ist freilich nur die Rede davon, was für Tiere und Pflanzen da gelebt haben. Daß der Mensch auch gelebt hat, davon ist noch nicht die Rede.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p023"}],"english":["GA 92/1907-12-02/p017","GA 92/1907-12-02/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":170,"en_words":169,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6744,"original_word_count":6808,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Richard Wagner and Mysticism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA092/English/Singles/19071202p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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