Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/415/en

As the threefoldness does, so too does the fourfoldness lead to a grasp of the concept of individuality. In the I-endowment of the human being this concept is fulfilled. The concept of the organism, however — of being closed within itself — is already fulfilled in the animal kingdom, but not in the plant, which is endowed with life alone. The plant would present itself as a complete organism only if one were to add in thought, to the shoot, the earth in which it is rooted, and to leaf and blossom, the cosmic periphery into which it unfolds.