{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-19/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"After the world of feelings, we ascend into the world of thought. When someone grasps a pure thought he comes into a situation which is different from those brought about through his feelings and actions. For whoever grasps a pure thought conjures up also through this thought a counter-effect. Europeans have such pure thoughts very seldom, for the thoughts are generally clouded by instincts, desires and passions. There is usually only one area where they have pure thoughts, that is in mathematics. When people calculate, their passions are usually very little involved. Because the majority of people everywhere wish to exercise their feeling and critical faculty they have no love for mathematics. Here one cannot vote in parliamentary fashion. Mathematical truth is recognised by man through truth itself; a problem can only have one solution. Whether one or a million people hold their own view about it, the problem must find the same solution. Nowhere should we need majority decisions, if it were possible in all spheres to make decisions in a way as free from emotion, as objectively, as in mathematics. In Europe one can only point to this as to an ideal, in the hope that one day, in other spheres of life, judgements will be, reached equally objectively and free from emotion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXI","site_heading":"Law of Effect and Counter-Effect in Spiritual Planes","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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Darüber kann man nicht parlamentarisch abstimmen. Die mathematische Wahrheit erkennt der Mensch durch die Wahrheit selbst, ein Problem kann man nur in einer Weise lösen. Ob einer oder eine Million Menschen entscheiden, es muß das Problem immer gleich gelöst werden. Wir würden nirgends Majoritätsbeschlüsse brauchen, wenn es möglich wäre, auf allen Gebieten so leidenschaftslos und objektiv zu entscheiden wie in der Mathematik. Darauf kann man in Europa nur als auf ein Ideal hindeuten, daß einmal in solch leidenschaftsloser, objektiver Weise auch auf anderen Gebieten des Lebens geurteilt werden wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/93a/1905-10-19/p018"}],"english":["GA 93a/1905-10-19/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3076,"original_word_count":2791,"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/RSP1982/19051019p01.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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