Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/561/en

The sense of smell is extraordinarily highly developed. The elongated head houses an extensive system of nasal cavities whose inner surfaces correspond approximately to the total area of the animal's outer skin. Horses sniff one another to greet or to make each other's acquaintance. With their exceedingly fine sense of smell they analyse their surroundings — whilst grazing, the selection of their fodder — every exhalation however subtle, even across great distances. Is it above all these three sense-capacities of eye, hearing and smell, together with the characteristic of carrying the head raised above the spine, that make the horse so teachable, let it respond with such high differentiation, that it awakens the belief it might be able to think? In Greek mythology the Perseus legend describes how thinking freed itself from the blood-boundness of the body — the bearer of the clairvoyant power active in ancient times: in the mythic image, Perseus beheads the Titaness Gorgo. From the stream of blood welling from her trunk, Pegasus springs forth — the winged horse. It symbolises thinking freed from the body, whose wings can now swing themselves freely up into the world of spirit. What appears in the intelligent behaviour of the horse's body as bound to the blood — in the human being it loosens itself from that bond and becomes the free spirit-soul activity of thinking.