Man's development forseen in Goethe's Faust

accessible to modern man by expressing it in the light of the centrality of the Christian revelation and in a spirit compatible with that of scientific thinking. Not only is Rudolf Steiner’s work important in itself as knowledge, but the applications of it to medicine, agriculture and education are yielding important results. Two Foundation Lectures, the fifth and sixth, have already been devoted to aspects of his thought.

Rudolf Steiner himself made a very special study of Goethe’s work. In the present lecture, Evelyn Capel, who is well known as an exponent of Steiner’s thought, particularly in its implications for religion, calls attention to the relevance of Goethe’s Faust to man’s problems of today.