{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1904-10-07/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But in so far as a man does not merely let the things of his surroundings work upon him, but creates something for the future, is an inventor and discoverer, just so far is he a Prometheus, one who thinks ahead. There would never be any inventions made if men were all like Epimetheus. An invention comes about because man is able to create something which was not there previously. First of all the thought is there and then the thought is transformed into reality. This is Promethean thinking. Promethean thinking is the ‘Manas’ thinking of the fifth Root Race (the thinking of spiritual thoughts). Earthly thinking and spiritual thinking flow side by side in the fifth Root Race. Gradually the spiritual thinking will become more and more widespread.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Prometheus Saga","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-10-07","location":null,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-10-07/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. Wood","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"The Temple Legend","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19041007p02.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Wording differs between translations, so a quotation found in one need not occur in the other."},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1904-10-07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 93/1904-10-07/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1904-10-07/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":108,"en_words":129,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 93/1904-10-07/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Insofern aber der Mensch nicht das, was schon da ist, auf sich wirken läßt, sondern Zukunft schafft, Erfinder und Entdecker ist, insofern ist er ein Prometheus, ein Vordenker. Niemals würden Erfindungen gemacht werden können, wenn der Mensch nur Epimetheus wäre. Eine Erfindung wird dadurch gemacht, daß der Mensch etwas schafft, was noch nicht da ist. Zuerst ist es im Gedanken da, und dann wird der Gedanke umgesetzt in die Wirklichkeit. Dieses ist das Prometheusdenken. Dieses Prometheusdenken ist innerhalb der fünften Wurzelrasse das manasische Denken. Kama-manasisches und manasisches Denken gehen wie zwei Ströme nebeneinander her in der fünften Wurzelrasse. Allmählich wird das manasische Denken immer weiter und weiter ausgebreitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1904-10-07/p020"}],"english":["GA 93/1904-10-07/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":108,"en_words":129,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.25,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4434,"original_word_count":3557,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John M. 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