Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1231/en

What governs this is conscience, into which all thoughts, feelings and impulses of will ultimately flow, and from which all actions receive their particular moral-ethical stamp. In the older peasant culture the saying held: «The tread of the farmer fertilises.» One walked behind the plough holding the reins, or as a sower across the field, or in the Sunday round across the fields. As true as that saying once was, it is equally true today — in metamorphosis. Once it was still immediate instinctive experience, drawn from folk-knowing, what the earth says to the one who treads upon it, what speaks from the moods of the surroundings, what the soil breathes in, what it breathes out. One knew then what followed as the right next thing to do. Today, the certainty of «doing the right thing rightly at the right moment» must be newly won from the force of the consciousness soul. While walking across the field — after a day's work, say, filled as one is with the many impressions of the day — one feels a certainty arising from unknown depths of soul, not born of sense-bound thinking. Out of the felt wholeness of the farm and all its present living connections, one suddenly knows what is to be done the following day — whether to turn one's attention to areas of the farm that have fallen out of sight, or whether this or that crop urgently requires a treatment of care, such as harrowing or a preparation spray. Intuitions present themselves, rising dimly into consciousness from the sphere of the will. One knows oneself standing in a spirit-living stream from yesterday to today and from today to tomorrow. To let ideas flow thinking into the work so that in the work, through feeling, they lay hold of the will — this is what opens the way for intuitions that lead toward a new art of fertilising out of the spirit, toward an art of enlivening substance, of the «solid, earthy itself.»