Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/606/en

Rumination: A Perceiving and Sifting of Substances and Forces

In the activity of rumination — eight to nine hours a day — the essential expression of the cow changes fundamentally. Its metabolic-limb activity comes largely to rest. All inner and outer activity shifts toward the head pole. Not only is the cheek musculature engaged in powerful, rhythmic activity — grinding the fibre-rich bolus swallowed back up, dosed at roughly 100 grams — but equally the tongue and the salivary glands. The senses behave in complete contrast to this. In concentration upon the act of rumination they come, in a certain sense, to rest, to a state of inner recollection. Now for the first time the cow truly thinks through what it has taken in from outside — from this field, that meadow or pasture — in the way of living, structured substance. To be sure, it has done so in the