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I could give you countless more such examples that would show you how outer circumstances have led to the adoption of practical rules for which people now try to discover some deep symbolic explanation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. The Royal Art in a New Form","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-02","location":null,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p031","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/RSP1985/19060102p01.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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Die meisten meinen, es sei irgendeine formelle Redensart, oder legen sie in mehr oder weniger geistreichem Sinne aus. So könnte ich Ihnen noch unzählige Beispiele anführen, welche Ihnen zeigen würden, wie äußere Verhältnisse dazu geführt haben, praktische Maßregeln anzuwenden, aus denen man sich heute bemüht, tiefsinnige symbolische Auslegungen herauszuholen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1906-01-02/p031"}],"english":["GA 93/1906-01-02/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":155,"en_words":164,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.23,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":13461,"original_word_count":10911,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"John M. 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