{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Till now, man has only mastered the inanimate in Nature -the transformation of the living forces, the transformation of what sprouts and grows in the plants, and of what manifests itself in animal [and human] reproduction that is beyond his power. Man has to leave these mysterious powers of Nature untouched. There he cannot encroach. What results from these forces cannot be fully comprehended by him. An artist can certainly create a strangely beautiful Zeus, but he cannot fully comprehend this Zeus; in the future, man will reach a level where he can do that as well. Just as it is so, that man has achieved control over Inanimate nature, has mastered gravity with spirit level and plumb-line, and the directional forces of Nature with the aid of geometry and mechanics; so it is the case that in future man will himself control what he only receives as a gift from Nature or the Divine powers—namely, the living.","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":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p055","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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So wahr es ist, daß der Mensch die Herrschaft über die unlebendige Natur errungen hat, die Schwerkraft beherrscht mit Wasserwaage und Senkblei, die Richtungskräfte der Natur beherrscht mit demjenigen, was ihm in der Geometrie und Mechanik zur Verfügung steht, so wahr ist es, daß er in Zukunft durch sich selbst beherrschen wird das, was er heute nur als Geschenk der Natur oder der göttlichen Mächte hat: das Lebendige.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93/1906-01-02/p055"}],"english":["GA 93/1906-01-02/p055"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":164,"en_words":158,"ratio":0.96,"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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