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Gesamtausgabe, second edition 2(4/23/1919, Stuttgart) (p. 53) 3705 192-01 Musical feeling is based on the fact that the rhythm of breathing in our brain meets with sense-perception and in the collision of the rhythm of breathing and the external senseperception the musical-aesthetic sensation comes into being. The rhythmical system is the elementary. And what makes this elementary conscious lies in the nervous system. The so-called motor nerves make movements conscious, they are caused by metabolism. 4(5/11/1919, Stuttgart)* (81ff.) 3725 192-02 education Main features of a renewed public education (Waldorf School). In the following lecture (5/18/1919)* on the requirements for teachers. Lecture 6(6/1/1919)*: On timetable (class periods), abolition of national school supervision, necessity of a study generale as a basis of a university study. * These lectures are contained in Education as a Force for Social Change (CW 297). 9(6/15/1919, Stuttgart) (184ff.) 3753 192-03 On education in the first three seven-year periods: In the first seven-year period it should be based on childish imitation, in second on the authority of the adult which he/she has acquired to him/herself. Thus the adolescent gains confidence in world and men in the third period, from which social love can arise a special case of which is sexual love. 11(6/29/1919, Stuttgart) (p. 249) 3763 192-04 technology / social life Inventions of people less than forty years old have a retarding effect in the whole connection of humankind, as if anything is dammed up in humankind, above all against the moral progress of humankind... When the human being has reached the forties and kept his inventive mind for that what has to happen for the physical world, then he gives moral contents together with the invention...

192-05 13(7/13/1919, Stuttgart) (288ff.) 3773 This English language does not have the possibility to express itself in such a way that the spoken completely coincides with the spirit... However, this typical feature of the future world language is something exceptionally salutary. People are educated by this language to hear through on the thought, to get a kind of reading of thoughts. The English civilisation will not be able to do that This can only be managed if the Central European civilisation reflects on its better element and takes part in the world civilisation to develop a spiritual feeling within humankind. This will deliver the basis of social understanding which is caricatured as idea of the League of Nations. See 193/7(9/13/1919).
14(7/20/1919, Stuttgart) (307ff.) 3777 192-06 th Up to the 15 century, the human being took in mental forces together with food. Metabolism has become purely physical since then. With some animals, like cattle or snake, the digestive process is still a process in the astral body [cf. 204-15].

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