Rudolf Steiner's metaphysical ideas lack subtlety and depth, partly because his addiction to science--which deals after all with the form side of things--was so excessive as to disturb his natural balance, and partly because the kind of science in which he had steeped himself was that which may roughly be called "Victorian," and "mechanistic," and is now wholly outdated by the new science of today which is so much less materialist. The "impasse" between science and religion, the blank wall terminating scientific materialism of which Steiner made so much and to which he addressed so many pages, is hardly a serious issue today. After all, three-quarters of a century have passed since it really was one. Rudolf Steiner was too much a creature of his own period to be considered our contemporary today; his work is too dated. His agricultural ideas, however, are excellent and are now being taken up with great benefit by farmers.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 49
