Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/579/en

The soul-expressions of sheep and goat are polar to one another. The sense-performances of both are admittedly similar — the sense of smell is the most excellently developed, followed by the sense of sight and, at some remove, the sense of hearing. Yet the soul element lives itself out differently in body language and through the senses. With head mostly lowered below the line of the spine, with a more massive body, more turned toward the earth and toward the inner world of its own metabolism, more ponderous in its movements, the soul-nature of the sheep expresses itself in a more dreamily subdued way. The goat is otherwise: it springs up vividly, leaps over stock and stone, raises the head high, sniffs curiously now at this, now at that, climbs the nearest available elevated position and holds its gaze attentively directed into the distance. Rather than grazing across wide plains, it prefers mountainous terrain — grazing at head height on steep slopes, or standing upright on its hind legs to reach for the highest attainable leaf on bush and tree.