Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1676/en

The question of which organ-sheath can enclose the dandelion blossoms connects itself with the domestic animal skull as sheath for the oak bark. Can there be, beyond the skull, any organ-sheath at all through which the preparation of the dandelion blossoms can be carried further? The head, in its strictly delimited forms and its outwardly directed sense organization, finds no continuation — except, at least to some degree, among the antler-bearers, not the horn-bearers. The head stands over against the world with its senses. The continuation of the nerve-sense activity must be sought on a higher level. It is found, uniquely developed, among the ruminants: the sense organization of the cow turns away from the head, back over the heart, and continues, in the sensory-supersensible activity of the peritoneum, on a higher level in a certain sense (Figure 35, p. 457). The cow turns toward the outer world with its head-sense organs comparatively dully, but toward its inner world with its lower senses — above all the life sense of the peritoneum — comparatively brightly. Through its intelligence-damming horns at the head, it extends its intelligent being into the bodily sheath. The sense activity in the head and that in the body stand in reciprocal relation. Where the former works to make sensory-consciously aware, the latter works to empower supersensibly.