Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/359/en

The first of these idea-germs takes up the significance of agriculture with respect to the social question: The First World War brought about the collapse of the old world order. In the social chaos that followed, Rudolf Steiner inaugurated the "Threefold Social Order." In this vast nexus of ideas, that impulse which since the modern era had pressed to the surface in successive centuries — only to founder against the retarding power-structures and sink back again into concealment — reappeared from the underground depths of historical becoming, now in transformed form. Prepared through his *The Threefold Commonwealth*, Rudolf Steiner began — together with people who stood actively in life — to undertake concrete steps toward a reshaping of social life, in the sense of: