GA 204 · Lectures

Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung

The Materialistic Impulse Toward Knowledge and the Task of Anthroposophy

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-2040-5 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2041-2 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	2017	362	the publisher's online catalog
	1979		AnthroWiki (German)
	2016		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

18 units in the printed table of contents, about 97,769 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1979.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. April 1921	1921-04-02	Dornach	lecture	5454
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 3. April 1921	1921-04-03	Dornach	lecture	4836
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. April 1921	1921-04-09	Dornach	lecture	4213
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. April 1921	1921-04-15	Dornach	lecture	5433
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. April 1921	1921-04-16	Dornach	lecture	4756
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. April 1921	1921-04-17	Dornach	lecture	5239
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. April 1921	1921-04-22	Dornach	lecture	4894
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 23. April 1921	1921-04-23	Dornach	lecture	6420
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. April 1921	1921-04-24	Dornach	lecture	5787
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 29. April 1921	1921-04-29	Dornach	lecture	4987
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. April 1921	1921-04-30	Dornach	lecture	5596
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. Mai 1921	1921-05-01	Dornach	lecture	6865
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Mai 1921	1921-05-05	Dornach	lecture	5384
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13. Mai 1921	1921-05-13	Dornach	lecture	5202
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. Juni 1921	1921-06-02	Dornach	lecture	7162
SECHZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 3. Juni 1921	1921-06-03	Dornach	lecture	6117
SIEBZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Juni 1921	1921-06-05	Dornach	lecture	5699
HINWEISE			apparatus	3725

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	20 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	17 the site's completeness audit
Words served	109700 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.17 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA204/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1979 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page AP1987

Translator	Maria St the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1987
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 204 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Maria St. Goar	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1987	9780880101769	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	20	13, 3, 4	482	17, 2

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	16 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	57 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	14 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung (GA 204), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/204/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/204/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions AP1987.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_204
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 81a6208e6553e4bb
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA204/English/AP1987/MaTask_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

status as of 2026-11-04 · all volumes