
CW 307 Modern Art of Education: Lecture 1: Science, Art, Religion, Morality (August 5, 1923) by Rudolf Steiner
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Science and Art Are One Aspect of the Same Truth
There was a time when, through direct inner imagination, humankind could perceive spiritual ground of the sensory world. Human beings made this instinctive imagination substantial by using earthly material to make architecture, sculpture, painting, music and the other arts in outer material forms. People embodied the fruits of knowledge to their hearts delight with faculties. Today we establish scientific systems of knowledge from which art is eliminated as much as possible. A huge gap thus opens between knowledge and art, and humanity can no longer find a way to cross it. The laws of science canno approach us. Why? Although it sounds like heresy to modern ears, whenever we approach the human being with natural laws, we must move into the realm