Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/591/en

Position within the Farm Organism

With regard to shaping the agricultural organism into a self-contained whole, cattle — or rather the herd organism formed into a higher unity — are "queen and king" among all domestic animals. To be sure, each of them, as indicated in the preceding chapters, makes its contribution in accordance with the soul element submerged in its bodily formation. But to the being of the cow there belongs a universal potency. On account of this fact, cattle-keeping cannot, strictly speaking, be dispensed with. Their essential significance lies only secondarily in what they produce by way of foodstuffs and other raw materials. That is the outer side. This side is represented by the range of field crops that form a substantial foundation pillar of primary value-creation in economic life. The primary contribution lies on the inner side; it is the particular capacity to bring the physiological functions — or more precisely the members of the farm organism — into relation with one another, and thereby to maintain this organism as a wholeness that is healthy and capable of development. The cow — always conceived as a member of the farm-centred herd organism — sets the wisdom-filled measure