Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/734/en

All the symptoms of our time point to the urgency of a new natural order and a new social order encompassing the whole of human life. Just as the human being, in ignorance of his spiritual being and consequently of his tasks of development, tends to create disorder, so it is precisely self-knowledge that can open his eyes to a principle of order which holds for nature just as it holds for the shaping of social life. It is Rudolf Steiner's anthropological discovery: the threefold nature of the human organism in nerve-sense system, rhythmic system, and metabolic-limb system (see pp. 88 ff.). Everything presented so far, and everything that follows, rests upon it. In the chaos following the First World War, Rudolf Steiner sought, through corresponding institutions, to articulate social life into the functional threefoldness of spiritual-cultural life, rights-life, and economic life, so that each of these members could develop autonomously and at the same time in living reciprocal interaction with one another, and unite into a higher whole of the social organism. He counted at that time on the openness of consciousness of the working class, on the proletariat held captive within capital-driven industry. This far-reaching attempt failed, as set out at the beginning, for many external reasons. The people still engaged in agriculture at that time (approx. 40%) were not in the same way affected by the social