Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/508/en

What is experienceable throughout the insect kingdom, and in a high degree among its state-forming representatives, is a wisdom working hidden in the soul, expressing itself in the highly specialized, tool-like bodily configuration — but above all in the division-of-labour, relationship-creating activity of a giving and taking, as for instance in the beehive or the ant-hill. In the latter two cases they are not merely dependent on external warmth: they generate the warmth themselves — the bees, for example, through intensive movement within the winter bee-cluster, the termites through the self-heating of compressed fresh leaves, grass and the like, to warm their brooding-places in their earthen structures. What otherwise lives itself forth in warm-blooded animals as instinctive, soul-filled inner life — in insects it turns itself inside out into consummate artistry: the spider and its web, the bee and its comb, the wasp and its nest.