Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/755/en

This threefold research-work concerns itself with the formation of a small universe, as the human being is one as microcosm. The building of this small universe, the bodily organism of the "Farm Individuality" in the process of becoming, touches ultimately on all spheres of life and activity, and thus on social life as a whole. Not so long ago, farming, craft, trade, and commerce formed a coherent regional form of life and economy. In Goethe's lifetime, roughly 85% of the working population was still active in agriculture. Today people have turned, in their search for free self-determination, to other fields of activity — all but 2%.