Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1427/en

But how can one ascribe to one and the same substance, nitrogen, two quality-workings of so polar a character? According to current scientific understanding there is only the one — the one that derives from nitrogen's inorganic, physico-chemical properties. If one allows only this mode of thinking to hold good, then the question is justified: why, in so complicated a fashion, produce such minute quantities of nitrogen, when nitrogen is present in the air in abundance? One need only shape the crop rotation in agriculture to be sufficiently rich in legumes, and have enough organic manure to hand, in order to secure the nitrogen requirement for reproductive growth. This is a view that opens up to the thinking-experience only a partial cross-section of reality. When the forces banished into the physical are enlivened in the plant through the plant's etheric organisation, and ensouled in the animal through the animal's astral body, they come into movement; they