From Elephants to Einstein: Lectures to the Workers CW 352. Ten discussion/lectures with workers at the Goetheanum in Dornach between 7 January and 27 February 1924. Translated by Anna Meuss, FIL, MTA.

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1. Lecture 1: Pachyderms. Nature of shell/carapace and skeletal development (Dornach, January 7, 1924)

2. Lecture 2: Poisons and their effect on humans (Dornach, January 19, 1924)

3. Lecture 3: Nutrition (Dornach, January 23, 1924)

4. Lecture 4: The human eye. Albinism (Dornach, February 2, 1924)

5. Lecture 5: Fluid cycle of earth in relation to universe (Dornach, February 9, 1924)

6. Lecture 6: Human clothing (Dornach, February 13, 1924)

7. Lecture 7: Effects of Arsenic and Alcohol (Dornach, February 16, 1924)

8. Lecture 8: Connection between higher aspects of the human being and the physical body. Actions of opium and alcohol. (Dornach, February 20, 1924)

9. Lecture 9: Anabolism and catabolism in the human organism. Significance of secretions. (Dornach, February 23, 1924)

10. Lecture 10: Einstein's theory of relativity. Thinking divorced from reality. (Dornach, February 27, 1924) [includes appendix: How the lectures for the workers at the Goetheanum came about by Viktor Stracke.