Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/366/en

question — had not yet become acute in agriculture. But threatening signs, such as the effects of fertilizing with synthetically produced nitrogen salts, the loss of variety stability and of animal health, sensitized individual farmers and agriculturalists. From 1920 onward they approached Rudolf Steiner with the request that he give them, out of anthroposophical spiritual science, cognitive foundations and practical indications for the renewal of agriculture into the future. What the questioners were after were ideas — spiritual true-images that could give agricultural work a meaning again, beyond mere procedural technique, and, if these ideas were taken hold of, could once more build a spiritual-moral bridge to the things and beings in nature and in the cosmos. The Agriculture Course contains the seed-laying for the development of an agriculture of the future, in which the hidden stream of the impulses of Christian-Occidental farming rises in thoroughgoing metamorphosis to the surface of the age of consciousness. Rudolf Steiner connected directly with the questions of people who stood within the old, death-consecrated farming culture and who were seeking approaches to its renewal. He connected with a just-still-existing past in order to transform it into a future. In doing so he appealed to the thinking consciousness of the active human being standing in practice.