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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Cover Sheet
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  • When Rudolf Steiner gave these lectures to about a hundred German youth
  • lecturer, from the German edition published with the title,
• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Contents
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Preface
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  • pundits of many nations, creeds and convictions continue to peddle
  • To be “deeply involved” is the demand of the day, but
  • seedbed to check on its root development. The very manner of growth —
  • achieve the image of this chariot, however, demands a new education.
  • great transition to this newer age consists in man meeting man free
  • demands; but the capacities for this untrammeled encounter have not
  • for the spirit in Man and in the universe — had begun to sound.
  • growth of such food demands that the plough first be turned inward
  • bread, not stones, in man's relation to man.
• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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  • three decades. In our present time, many things clash.
  • by no means an unpleasing relic, quite the contrary, and in many
  • superficially. Many similar things might be quoted. Perhaps you will
  • culture emancipated themselves in the thirteenth, fourteenth and
  • external life. In Middle Europe, especially in the German-speaking
  • the middle of the eighties and nineties, in German-speaking
  • the point of view of their significance for the whole of mankind.
  • of the rich tones of inner beauty which are to be found in the German
  • romantic poets in the first third of the nineteenth century. Think of
  • the words of a man like Jacob Grimm when he touches on things
  • social life man cannot really find his fellow-men any longer.
  • pass by other human beings and cannot understand them. This too
  • because this feeling is lacking. And so man was gradually turned into
  • enough that everywhere in the relations between man and man no need
  • is felt to grow near, in soul, to other human beings. Everyone passes
  • nineteenth as the customary social feeling between man and man?
  • that a man should have a sound will and a sound heart so that he can
  • them. But thus a man shuts himself off in the most rigorous way from
  • humanity of Middle Europe has really become very weak-willed —
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture II
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  • fact, this situation has been preparing for many decades, but
  • clothed in all kinds of different words — one man speaking
  • as institutes for research. They were no longer there for human
  • human beings but it most certainly was not a human being! Something
  • non-human was going about among men, calling itself “Objective
  • among mankind. But human beings do not really fit in with this
  • and genuine manhood has no kinship with this cold, objective,
  • word — they are looking for human beings — and they find,
  • their institutes and libraries must be there. But the human being
  • as a human being, but through a leaden heaviness in him.
  • could express this in other ways too: Human beings strive toward
  • into relation with human beings with whom it can experience Nature in
  • years of youth. We must come together with human beings with whom we
  • human reality is expelled; “objective” science is
  • creature “Science,” which came upon the scene in many
  • through its very name is connected with human inwardness, with love.
  • within me, connected with feeling and with a genuinely human
  • things will link themselves together. Human beings who lived at the
  • human being of today. This was so because in the life of feeling and
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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  • is taken into account by the human being today? He attaches
  • was it not always so? Did human beings in earlier times include in
  • “mercury,” phosphorus and so on, that they included many
  • of that time man did not experience in salt, sulphur, or phosphorus
  • over into the day and man's perception was richer; his
  • fact that the human being acts with his waking consciousness.
  • sleep. it is of course true that the human being can work at
  • western civilization man still grew up in such a way that he felt:
  • sleep there was in every human being an elemental mood of prayer,
  • striving among human beings of past epochs, apart from the fact that
  • aware of man's participation in the spiritual world.
  • people do not ask: What has come about in modern mankind from the
  • do not think of the whole human being but only of part of him. One
  • things have been perceived in the form in which they can permanently
  • in the organism and human beings were aware of them. They felt
  • of the true man.
  • century. At that time man did not think only with the brain but with
  • living human being, however, demands a living kind of thinking and
  • this demand is in his very blood. You must be clear about this. You
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IV
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  • of the life of humanity in a particular region or period by knowing
  • thing as one universal morality for all mankind, nor is there an
  • underlies all judgments of human characteristics and actions, namely,
  • material, that it is impossible to draw forth from the human soul
  • moral intuitions. We can only say with certainty that man acts
  • according to his natural endowments. Any action is judged by a man's
  • judgments are modified as human society changes from century to
  • faced, I was obliged to say, “The future of human ethics
  • century, man stood, in his soul-being, face to face with
  • man's deeper spiritual nature, that for the future, moral
  • itself in German culture in a most tragic way. We need only mention
  • in the spiritual evolution of mankind at the end of the nineteenth
  • had dawned the age in which the full human content was being crushed
  • many have grasped with such innate power the contrast between the
  • felt: “When it began man no longer looked at the immediate and
  • should be capable of unfolding an entirely new human feeling. We only
  • do justice to the human being when we see in him an entirely new
  • us that we should develop a new feeling for him as a human being. If
  • we come with a general idea in our heads, saying that the human being
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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  • was to point to moral intuitions as that within man which, in the evolution
  • to continue in the evolution of mankind, to make an appeal to what
  • what the age, among many of its most eminent minds considered to be
  • principles of human evolution.
  • of man's life of soul, as we see it today in the West. In
  • it was said that, as an individual entity, man could call forth from
  • realm into human experience was a matter of course. These facts, as I
  • to assert “No, that must first be proved!” What man
  • of modern man. They could not get beyond the point they were then
  • about proofs, for that would have seemed absurd. Man began to “prove”
  • vaguest manner.
  • consequence of a historical development. Until then human beings had
  • man's inner life of soul into account; there is no knowledge of
  • moral intuition as begotten from within, but as divine commandments,
  • the human being felt what he saw when he beheld the moral, to be a
  • Moral intuitions held good as divine commands — not in a
  • primal revelation faded out. Human beings lost the faculty for being
  • point in the first third of the fifteenth century. Human beings
  • man.
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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  • be active during your stay here, many of you are thinking above all
  • living in an age when many new impulses must come into the evolution
  • of mankind. There is a tendency to think that the attitude of the
  • noticed in many of you. It seems to me important that when anyone
  • here we must look still more deeply into the human soul than I have
  • human heart in the West during the past centuries, we can but say:
  • body has been lost to man's sight. Form an idea of how utterly
  • physical human body, has united itself with the physical human body.
  • its very first breath, or even before, what is being manifested by
  • about the world-riddle was expressed in the paradigm: “Man,
  • know thyself!” This saying, “Man, know thyself “is
  • to do after the moment when this world-riddle was solved? Man would
  • great many people think thus about the solution of the world-riddle.
  • what lies in the words “Man, know thyself!” expresses
  • something quite different. It really says: Man! look around you at
  • the world; the world is full of riddles, full of mystery, and man's
  • the riddles of the world are solved in man — again in the very
  • widest sense. Man himself, moving as a living being through the world
  • mystery. “Man, know thyself and thou knowest the world I.”
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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  • measure. Many do not yet admit this impartially, particularly among
  • generation was quite new upon the scene in human evolution. But this
  • feeling must reckon with many disappointments prepared out of its own
  • a great part of humanity has been asleep to this youth movement. When
  • with mild scepticism. There are many people today who would take it
  • appears to many as unrealizable. For, at the present time, it is
  • something that is not in the heads of human beings but in the
  • the life-force in a human being who goes to bed at night before he is
  • that these forces, which are there at night in the human being when
  • the first third of the fifteenth century, all man's striving
  • pre-eminently adapted to science, which hardly touches the human
  • being at all. People no longer feel how the human element holds sway
  • not comply with the demands of certain churches in this direction.
  • front of another human being, because what he says cannot be taken
  • brought into splendid human activity; through the pictures we are
  • was eager to discuss many questions. One could look forward to such
  • was taboo. The man who knew his subject was only heard from the
  • too Nietzsche had one of his many interesting flashes of insight. He
  • called attention to the fact that within every human being another is
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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  • man's spiritual culture. Today, in order to find the bridge to
  • a true self-knowledge, we will study the human being more from
  • proportion of European humanity.
  • us look into the soul of a man who before this date lived into the
  • souls of these human beings were still so constituted that they were
  • conscious that human thought was not simply a head process, but that
  • human being was not able to receive such revelation directly, through
  • the confidential communication of other human beings. The prevalent
  • with how thoughts came to humanity from spiritual realms. In Southern
  • Europe and in Northern Africa doubts crept in as to whether the human
  • put into me by a God either indirectly or transmitted by way of human
  • of the South. They were of Germanic and Celtic blood and had moved
  • tremendous swing round in man's inner perception in the fourth
  • man to reflect upon the origin of thought; so that what previously
  • by no means convinced that the human being could create his
  • For one part of humanity matters were as I have described them; for
  • soul-spiritual Beings descending into the human organism communicated
  • thoughts to man. It was, if I may put it, only the “elite”
  • among humanity who at that time grasped thought in such a way that
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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  • gathered that the way in which a human being confronts his fellow men
  • assume that you are familiar with the soul principles of man
  • differentiate in the soul between what was active in human nature up
  • culture to which man has so far advanced.
  • century, human beings met and spoke to one another out of the
  • to feel it the developing human being had to reach the turn of the
  • soul and consciousness soul, which means for modern humanity the
  • bridge between one man and another, cannot be found. We are suffering
  • between human being and human being.
  • all we must ask many of our questions in a new way, in a form that
  • onwards the human being can know something about the connections in
  • we may know, for example, that the human being has ten fingers. But
  • then, follows from the fact that before his eighteenth year the human
  • human being before he is eighteen must depend upon those who are
  • this is all upside-down, because what in earlier times was demanded
  • only of the young, namely, belief, is now demanded in connection with
  • regarded as something sacred. A man would have reproached himself
  • lively conviction of individual human nature, so that they thus
  • the belief of the young was to be founded. A man did not think, just
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture X
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  • young human being started by recognizing in his teacher: This man can
  • possibility of differentiating between human beings. For human nature
  • is, with the intellect. For the intellect neither man's
  • a different point of view the course taken by mankind's
  • development proceeded from wide human foundations for which, when
  • especially with Inspiration, we can look back much further into human
  • man.
  • we look at the human being with less superficiality than is often
  • done today, we find that the whole evolution of the human soul
  • eighth year. Man's soul becomes different, and again it changes
  • occasion it is noticed that man's soul becomes different in the
  • transitions in man, that human life runs its course in rhythms. Try
  • tremendous vivacity. Eduard von Hartmann told me this himself.
  • why that young man doesn't want to lecture any more.”
  • man still had living experience of the change occurring in life in
  • six-and-thirty years, whereas a more ancient humanity grew in
  • humanity. Man has more and more to experience out of Nature
  • approximate. A man who looks back to the period of his forty-ninth,
  • course of man's evolution. And today if anyone does not
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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  • life in the inner being of man, yet also in the subconscious, in what
  • man desires of life, most concrete things are seeking to find their
  • human being who is growing into the epoch of the consciousness soul
  • outside man's head, if I may so express myself, the desire to
  • experience more than the head is able to. To begin with man has only
  • from Nature through the head. Between man and Nature today there
  • always stands man's head. It is as though everything that comes
  • to the human being from the world were to pour itself into the head,
  • world. Everything remains stuck fast in the head. Man thinks
  • Everything stops short there. The rest of man receives nothing from
  • comes from the world outside, and man is obliged to live, where his
  • that man still knows something about the world. But he has all the
  • maturing human being — this desire to find some kind of
  • whole man; to learn to experience the world with the whole man and
  • human beings today still have the capacity of learning to experience
  • the world with the whole man at an early age. For what I have just
  • been saying refers to the grown man. Before the change of teeth a
  • glutton. In the grown man the head claims all taste for itself. The
  • Later this is forgotten by man; and this tasting is impaired by the
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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  • during the last few days it will be clear that nowadays one human
  • human evolution with the century.
  • what in this century has come for the whole of humanity. Former ages
  • quite new conditions in human evolution, conditions difficult to
  • attain because at first man is not accustomed to them. And in spite
  • first time human ego meets human ego in an intercourse of soul that
  • complete human being as I characterized it yesterday, a comprehension
  • immediately upon the Atlantean catastrophe, the human being did not
  • perception of, let us say, a human movement, or of the play of
  • seems grotesque to modern man but I am telling you facts — how
  • the human being bears on his head a kind of etheric, astral cap. In
  • the material world comprehensible to the human soul by the roundabout
  • striving to understand man as a being of soul and spirit, and
  • interpret any manifestation of the physical man in terms of the
  • when man walks he has an experience with every step, an experience
  • was the perception in more ancient times; the gaze of the human being
  • even then was directed to man's external form, to his external
  • scientifically do today. In the human heart and mind there was
  • something altogether different; a man, belonging to the old Indian
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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  • civilized human being today lives in intellectualism in a life of
  • penetrating way. Mankind has worked itself up to the most abstract
  • humanity molded what was experienced inwardly into abstract concepts.
  • in man because he had united himself with this life.
  • conceptual system even of the most primitive human being is acquired
  • the human being feels it right that, in so far as they are born out
  • the human being has to work into what is dead because the living
  • devours the human being.
  • bound to Nature but which devours the human being. How does it devour
  • the human being? With the ideas the most advanced kind of thinking
  • draws from Nature, we can never understand man. What does our
  • animals evolve from animals, and how man stands before us — but
  • understood the kingdoms of Nature as arising out of man, modern
  • civilization grasps man as arising out of Nature, as the highest
  • there appears in the picture of the man-devouring dragon what is the
  • most potent factor in modern civilization. Man feels himself
  • knowledge of man has been more and more on the downgrade. The human
  • difficulty could man protect himself from having his innermost life
  • century the dragon stood with particular intensity before the human
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