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That is what your alienist, your psychiatrist, will tell you. Whatever you may say to contradict him, he will insist that the whole life of the mind and spirit depends on the physical organization. As far as it goes, the positive statement is correct, but these people do not understand what is really involved here; they have no idea.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Spiritual Insight Offering Greatest Liberation II: The Mission of the Spiritual Science Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-10-08","location":null,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-08/p020","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Das ist ebenfalls ein Fall, der von den Irrenärzten aufs Korn genommen worden ist. Hölderlin ging an der Sehnsucht nach dem alten Griechenland zugrunde. Der Irrenarzt sagt: Er litt an einer Gehirnkrankheit und alles andere ist äußeres Symptom. Die Gehirnkrankheit war vielleicht schon durch eine erbliche Anlage da. So wäre es unmöglich, von dem, was man heute Geistesleben nennt, auf die Konstitution des Organismus, zunächst auf die Konstitution des Gehirns, zurückzuwirken. Sie sehen, diese Forschungen der modernen Psychiatrie führen ins Bodenlose. Der physische Leib wird als etwas Gegebenes hingenommen, und das Geistige ist nur wie ein Dunst, der vom physischen Leibe ausgeht. Selbst die höchsten geistigen Fähigkeiten, selbst die Leistungen unserer Genies, insofern sie abnorm sind, werden von solchen materialistischen Forschern auf eine abnorme Gehirntätigkeit zurückgeführt. So wird es Ihnen der Irrenarzt, der Psychiater sagen. Was Sie ihm auch immer entgegnen - er wird dabei bleiben, daß alles Geistesleben von der physischen Organisation abhängig ist. Soweit die positive Behauptung geht, ist sie richtig, denn das, worum es sich eigentlich handelt, kennt man in diesen Kreisen gar nicht; das ist völlig unbekannt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-08/p017"}],"english":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":185,"en_words":199,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6420,"original_word_count":5599,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19061008p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 96/1906-10-08/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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