Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1226/en

of thinking, feeling and willing. In the case of the human being, the digestive process of nourishment stands exclusively in his service — not at the same time in that of the earth. He withdraws from the nourishment taken in all forces for himself alone. He is, by comparison with animal and plant, an egoist. What the human being excretes by way of the kidney-bladder process as fluid, and by way of intestinal digestion as more solid matter, is stripped of all nourishing forces — it is lifeless, soulless, and spiritless slag. Its substances are completely «decomposed» out of their living and soul-nexus; they are thrown back as N, P, K, Si, Ca, and so forth into the condition of the purely mineral, and can act only as such.