Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/626/en

good measure of what the life body of the farm organism has brought forth. What comes, in the course of the year, from meadows, pastures, and field fodder cultivation is the product of the interworking of the physical and life organisation of the farm. This product — the abundance of grasses and herbs — does not serve human nutrition, but it does serve that of the ruminants, and, through plant residues as well as manure and liquid manure, the fertility of the earth. The cow eats and processes enormous masses of plant matter as though it needed all of this for itself alone. But this is not the case at all. What has congealed into those masses as cosmically enlivening formative force, the cow raises into the sphere of its analysing, dully sentient soul body; permeates with these forces of sentience the etheric formative forces released from digestion and suffusing the whole body; and finally generates a product that it bestows back upon the earth as a surplus value — and so helps the soil toward an enduring, continuously working fertility.