Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/556/en

Both, horse and donkey, are odd-toed ungulates. They stand and walk on the tip of the middle toe, or middle finger respectively. These are encased in the hoof, a horn-shoe that is impermeable to outer force-radiations — just as are the cloven hooves of the even-toed ungulates and the horns of the ruminants. However heavy the horses are in body, so lightly, indeed so dance-like, do they move. In beauty and elegance the movements of the horse are unsurpassed, as indeed its soul-nature lives itself forth wholly in the body language of rhythmic movement. Whether at the walk, or in a measured tiptoeing trot — both with head held high — or in the purposefully forward-flying gallop with neck stretched and nostrils flared, it always offers the image of noble unfolding of force and of proportion, heightened to a higher harmony through the rider. Only in the unity of horse and rider does it reveal its nobility of bearing and character. It is otherwise when it puts its weight into the harness and draws the plough or the heavy wagon, rhythmically raising and lowering its head at each step: then it evokes the image of a complete surrender of its will-nature to the call and the rein-guiding hand of the human being, and to the service it performs selflessly upon the earth.