{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-07/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But these stages are not final; evolution gradually progresses. Even today the solar plexus is an active agent in certain animals which have not developed a spinal cord. All invertebrate animals are single forms from left behind stages of what was laid down earlier. It was only on the Earth that man cast out from himself the vertebrate animals. In earlier times his organism was still somewhat similar to that of the crab at the present day. Man has progressed beyond that earlier stage whereas the crab has remained stationary. It is an astonishing fact that the whole inner formation of the crab has a certain similarity to the human brain. There is actually a similarity between the internal formation of the crab and the human brain. Like the human brain the crab too is enclosed in a hard shell. After man had developed a spine and had metamorphosed the upper vertebrae, he cast off the hard shell. The crab has not developed further. It has adapted itself to its environment by means of a hard shell that it had to have and which serves the same purpose as does the protective covering of the whole body in man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"The Four-Fold Human Being and Evolutionary Development","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Früher war der Mensch noch ähnlich organisiert wie heute etwa der Krebs. Der Mensch ist heute über die damalige Stufe hinausgeschritten, während der Krebs stehengeblieben ist. Überraschend ist es, daß das ganze Innere des Krebses eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit mit dem menschlichen Gehirn hat. Es gibt tatsächlich eine Ähnlichkeit zwischen der inneren Krebsgestalt und dem menschlichen Gehirn. Auch der Krebs ist eingeschlossen in eine harte Schale wie das menschliche Gehirn. Nachdem der Mensch ein Rückenmark ausgebildet und die oberen Wirbel umgestaltet hatte, warf er die harte Schale ab. Der Krebs hat sich nicht weiter entwickelt. Er hat sich an die äußere Umgebung angepaßt durch eine harte Schale, die ihm das sein mußte, was dem Menschen die schützende Hülle der ganzen übrigen Körperlichkeit ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-07/p006"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-07/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":176,"en_words":199,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3113,"original_word_count":2772,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"RSP1982","book_title":"Foundations of Esotericism","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/19051007p01.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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