{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-05/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And then, inasmuch as we evolve from the fifth into the sixth and then into the seventh epoch, the ancient connection of race and blood will be increasingly lost. Mankind becomes freer of physical ties in order to form groups from the aspect of the spirit. It was a bad habit in Theosophy to speak of races as if they would always remain. The concept of race loses its meaning in the immediate future. To state incessantly that seven and again seven races have always evolved in the world is the speculative extension of an idea that only holds good for our age—looking backwards and forwards; it has never been said from clairvoyant vision, from occultism. Races have arisen, as everything else arises; and as everything again dies out so will races die out too. Those who have always only spoken of races will have to accustom themselves to making their ideas fluid. It is only a convenient way of talking. If one looks but a little into the future those ideas which applied to past and present are already no longer valid. It is most important that people should not consider that something they have once brought into a beautiful concept is a truth for all time. Men must get into the habit of making ideas fluid, of recognising that ideas change-that will be an advance. The ability of passing over from rigidly dogmatic ideas to mobile ones must be cultivated in those who would be the bearers of the future. For just as times change so must our ideas change too, if we would understand the times.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIII. 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Das ewige Reden, daß immer in der Welt sich sieben und sieben Rassen entwickelt hätten, das ist die spekulative Ausdehnung eines Begriffes, der nur für unser Zeitalter nach rückwärts und vorwärts gilt; von der Sehergabe, vom Okkultismus ist das nie gesagt worden. Wie alles entsteht, so sind auch die Rassen entstanden, und wie alles wieder vergeht, werden auch die Rassen wieder vergehen, und jene, die immer nur von Rassen gesprochen haben, die werden sich daran gewöhnen müssen, ihre Begriffe flüssig zu machen. Das ist nur eine Bequemlichkeit! Wenn man ein wenig nur in die Zukunft blickt, gelten schon die Begriffe nicht mehr, die man in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart angewendet hat. Das ist die Hauptsache, daß der Mensch nicht dasjenige, was er einmal in einen schönen Begriff gebracht hat, nun für eine ewige Weisheit hält. Man wird sich daran gewöhnen müssen, die Begriffe flüssig zu machen, zu erkennen, daß Begriffe sich verändern, und das wird ein Fortschritt sein. Diese Möglichkeit, von starren, dogmatischen Begriffen überzugehen in flüssige, das ist es, was ausgebildet werden muß in denjenigen Menschen, die die Träger der Zukunft sein wollen. Denn so, wie die Zeiten sich ändern, müssen sich auch unsere Begriffe ändern, wenn wir diese Zeiten verstehen wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-06-05/p012"}],"english":["GA 99/1907-06-05/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":280,"en_words":269,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4976,"original_word_count":4748,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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