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• Title: Cover: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • First Scientific Lecture-Cour
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  • Clent near Stourbridge, Worcs., England,
• Title: Cover Pressing Page: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • LECTURE-COURSE
  • Clent near Stourbridge, Worcs., England,
• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • first had to be rekindled and awakened in our time — a
  • cannot find adequate words in which to thank him. Our truest
  • thanks must be the will to widen out our own horizon, thus
  • to lead again to spiritual sources that realm of human
  • inner courage to put their questions to the great spiritual
  • The strivings of many of our contemporaries towards some form
  • the facts of organic evolution. The longing of our time for
  • lacked the courage to admit that if we want to overcome the
  • orientation of our faculties of knowledge towards the outer
  • more than this, we must by dint of our own efforts give to
  • our deeper, latent faculties of knowledge the same
  • to me, that in our striving after knowledge we should arrive
  • at this clear recognition of our state, and I was happy when
  • hand there are a larger number of lecture-courses, printed at
  • our time, one must have recourse to my published writings. In
  • spiritual world are imparted to the prevailing culture of our
  • lecture-courses were given in the Society; and this involved
  • content of these privately printed lectures will of course
  • who work with this lecture-course approach it with the will
  • our scientists, who will then see through the inherent
• Title: Prefatory Note: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • lecture-course, Dr. Walter Johannes Stein read out the
  • wanting to defend Goethe's Theory of Colour in every
  • from this principle the phenomena of colour which were not
  • Theory of Colour in Goethe's spirit.”
  • deep into the central issues of our life of knowledge
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • ago, I would like to say that in the short time at our disposal I
  • you in forming your outlook upon Nature. I hope that in no very
  • must also realize, I was only told that this lecture-course was
  • educators, — not to apply directly in your lessons, but as a
  • fundamental trend and tendency in Science, which should permeate your
  • Nature in our time has been subject, for the teacher and educator it
  • To the words which our
  • world-conception into our physical and chemical ideas, was as yet
  • Chemistry of today, our scientists are fated in regard, whatever
  • aspects that shall help our understanding. In today's lecture it will
  • of Nature in the customary manner of our time, generally have no very
  • conception. Therefore we will not take our start from the prevailing
  • Scientists in our time do not reflect that they should really examine
  • phenomena. Speaking of causes, our scientists will have in mind
  • colour, what we subjectively describe as the quality of colour is the
  • effect on us, upon our soul, our nervous apparatus, of an objective
  • The Science of our
  • light or colour for example, the objective wave-movement in the
  • of the “subjective” phenomena of colour and the
  • considerable light on what is seeking to come into our Science by way
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• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • how in our study of Nature we have upon the one hand the purely
  • are able to gain simply from our own life of thought. We form our
  • movement. This we can spin, as it were, out of our own life of
  • hand it is no less significant that we must have recourse to quite
  • we made this clear to ourselves. While in phoronomy we can construct
  • Nature's processes in our own inner life, we now have to leap across
  • of light and colour rather as follows: — We ourselves are
  • affected, say, by an impression of light or colour — we, that
  • confused ideas. Indeed, with the resources of Physics as it is today
  • those among you who may no longer recall it from your school days can
  • simply adduce the essential elements to bring the formula before your
  • — pressing upon the point for a single moment which of course
  • course be produced. The effect shows itself, in that the mass moves
  • you most probably know; I only call it to your mind.) Multiply the
  • our reach, so that we can only get to know it, as it were, by staring
  • you can indeed, but your first step must be to make yourself more
  • consciously aware of this: — Press with your finger against
  • something: you thus acquaint yourself with the simplest form of
  • something with your finger. Now we must ask ourselves: Is there
  • something going on in us when we exert pressure with our finger,
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• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • and by. We shall have to go into the phenomena of light and colour
  • the main idea of the present course is for me to tell you some of the
  • prism — the phenomena of colour, in all their polar relation to
  • you who found things difficult to understand). Your difficulty lies
  • treatment of light and colour. The strange education we are made to
  • yourselves: Here we get stuck! You must attribute it to the unnatural
  • yourselves to some extent still have to take the same direction with
  • your pupils. It will not be possible, all at once, to bring the
  • light and colour, let us now begin again, but from the other end. I
  • a number of statements as to the way colours arise in and about the
  • colourless light go through a prism the colourless light is analyzed
  • we let a cylinder of colourless light impinge on the screen, it shows
  • a colourless picture. Putting a prism in the way of the cylinder of
  • light, the physicists went on to say, we get the sequence of colours:
  • explain it thus, so he was told — The colourless light already
  • contains the seven colours within itself — a rather difficult
  • — the seven colours, into which it is thus analyzed.
  • yonder wall. He really expected to see the light in seven colours.
  • But the only place where he could see any colour at all was at some
  • Looking at such a place through the prism he saw colours; where there
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• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • FOURTH LECTURE
  • — primary phenomenon — of the Theory of Colour. By and
  • Colour. Of course the phenomena get complicated; the simple
  • light colours, i.e. in the direction of the red and yellowish tones.
  • Blue or violet (bluish-red) tones of colour will appear (
  • can be seen on every hand if we once accustom ourselves to think more
  • of colours, from violet to red; we caught it on a screen. I made a
  • yellow-red colours.
  • to a screen and seeing the picture projected there, we put our eye in
  • coloured.
  • region). Through something darkened — through the blue colour,
  • you do. Likewise the red colour below is proof that here is a region
  • — it tells you what you actually see. Your eye is here
  • “objective” colours if you wish to speak in learned
  • and stated purely as phenomena, as we have been endeavouring to do.
  • colour-spectrum, began to speculate as to the nature of light. Here
  • is the prism, said Newton; we let the white light in. The colours are
  • light into its constituents. Newton now imagined that to every colour
  • corresponds a kind of substance, so that seven colours altogether are
  • prism they are diverted from their original course. Eventually they
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• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • shewing, as well as may be with our limited resources, the experiment
  • Bunsen. If we arrange things so that the source of light generating
  • it with our eyes. For it is possible to see the spectrum in this way
  • the colours are reversed. We have already discussed, why it is that
  • the colours appear in this way when we simply look through the
  • colours to what we call “bodies”. As a transition to this
  • problem looking for the relations between the colours and what we
  • Concerning the relation of the colours to the bodies we see around us
  • (all of which are somehow coloured in the last resort), the point
  • will be explained how it comes about that they appear coloured at
  • say: When colourless sunlight — according to the physicists, a
  • gathering of all the colours — falls on a body that looks red,
  • this is due to the body's swallowing all the other colours and only
  • another body appears blue. It swallows the remaining colours and
  • namely the way we see what we call “coloured bodies”
  • coloured light. The Bologna stone had acquired a relation to the
  • oil appears slightly yellow. If on the other hand you place yourself
  • green. But if you take your stand to some extent behind it — if
  • coloured light, — a property the chlorophyll does not retain.
  • coloured so long as we illumine it. The second is Phosphorescence: we
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• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • In our last lecture we
  • more exactly the method of our procedure. It is the task of Science
  • find your way back to the pure facts. You must first cultivate the
  • circle. Cast your mind back to what you learned in your school days.
  • the luminous object, — with your eye, say, here — looking
  • really going on when the phenomena of colour comes into being before
  • our eyes. Otherwise our very habit of thought begets the impression
  • that in some way the colours spring from the light alone. For from
  • the very outset we have it settled in our mind that the one and only
  • “I know four men. One of them owns £25, another £50;
  • in debt, the fourth is £50 in debt. Yet why should I take note
  • prevents our discovering the bridge between the soul-and-spirit on
  • space differ for our perception from the negative? As to the
  • sleep and are surrounded by light, — how we unite our
  • space, with a kind of in-drawing of the light. It is as though our
  • soul, our inner being, were to be sucking the light in. We feel a
  • into ourselves. How is it then with darkness? We have precisely the
  • ourselves to the darkness. Thus we may say: the effect of light upon
  • between the lighter and the darker colours. The light ones have a
  • colours on the other hand have a quality of drawing on us, sucking at
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• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • today with an experiment bearing upon our studies of the theory of
  • colour. As I have said before, all I can give you in this Course
  • that wherever colours arise there is a working-together of light
  • coloured shadows, as they are called.
  • VIIa), — candles as sources of light — and an
  • shadows, without perceptible colour. You only need to take a good
  • left-hand source of light. It is produced, in that the light from
  • this source is hidden by the rod. Likewise the shadow on the left
  • arises where the light from the right-hand source is covered.
  • is illumined by both sources of light. Now I will colour the one
  • coloured glass, so that this one of the lights is now coloured
  • that the shadow of the rod, due to this left-hand source of light
  • surface for a time, then turn your eye away and look straight at
  • there is nothing there. You yourself, as it were, see the green
  • colour on to the white surface. In such a case, you are seeing the
  • seeing just before, when you exposed your eye to the red surface
  • source of light to red, you see the shadow green. What was mere
  • source of light to green, — the shadow becomes red. And when
  • white ground you see the same lattice-work in green. Of course it
  • isn't there, but your own eye is active and makes an after-effect,
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• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • that elapses between your perception of the impression of light and
  • your perception of the sound, the time the sound has taken to go
  • pitch; thirdly a certain quality or colouring of sound. The problem
  • this branch of Science. I have already drawn your attention to the
  • prevalent today. Historically it is of course well-known, but
  • hand all that which we do not merely think out in our own inner
  • realities, — they always are. And of course this remains so
  • (which the physicist of course need not go into, — it is not
  • subjective. In course of time it has become part of their very
  • I am led to the conclusion that all your inner being and life of
  • soul — which, within you and for yourselves, is surely not to
  • this and nothing else. It is of course open to the physicist to be
  • course also go on into my own body. These are the subject-matter of
  • “effect” of the other. What you experience in your
  • upon me of the vibrations of your brain. To see through a thing
  • type. This you do not wind up. In favourable circumstances you may
  • with another person and he says something you yourself have just
  • piece of physical apparatus. Now we can of course equally well
  • course in rhythm — and, as it were, includes the brain within
  • what appears in quite another part of our body, namely in the
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• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • draw your attention to the development of electrical discoveries,
  • beginning no doubt with things that are well-known to you from your
  • was so developed and interpreted in course of time that they
  • which they riveted attention. They were encouraged to do this by
  • primitive mechanical ideas, but makes it necessary to give our
  • in a neighbouring wire, by the mere proximity of the one wire to
  • Figure IXb — were a source of light and here a mirror. A
  • The favourite
  • first fifteen years, say, of our century; you must admit that a
  • of course and lead to where you want it, is conducted through a
  • discharges; the coloured line which you are seeing is the path
  • not get where I want to in this course if I did not go through them
  • your knowledge of these things; I cannot go into them all from the
  • something is there, demanding our consideration),—
  • something quite different after all? In course of time the
  • too is electricity. This is in favour of its being of a material
  • you how at the outset of these lectures we endeavoured in a purely
  • to which I have been introducing you, all of them take their course
  • them have one property in common. Their relation to ourselves is
  • sound and warmth we ourselves are swimming, so to speak, as was
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• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • bring these few improvised hours of scientific study to a
  • yourselves, taking your start from characteristic facts which you
  • shimmering in a violet shade of colour, and the canal rays coming
  • of light, colours could be seen arising, but man had not enough
  • inner activity to receive the world of colour into his forming of
  • colours, scientists replaced the colours, which they could not
  • somehow compelled to bring more movement into our geometrical and
  • happened in this way. Put yourselves back into your school days:
  • you will remember how you were taught (and our good friends, the
  • 180°. Of course you know this. Now then we have to give our
  • world we see and examine with our senses — ever to be taken
  • space of our own conceiving? We must admit: the space which we
  • Euclidean Geometry which we ourselves think out. Might it not be
  • only we who by our own way of thinking first translate this into
  • we only go by the resources of Natural Science as it is today, we
  • have at first no means whatever of deciding, how our own
  • origin of all our phoronomical — arithmetical, geometrical
  • and including our ideas of movement purely as movement, but not
  • our reason. We see with our eyes and hear with our ears. All that
  • our senses thus perceive, — we work upon it with our
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