Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/778/en

As set out in detail in the chapter "The Threefold Nature of the Human Being and the Farm Individuality" (p. 88 ff.), the "farm individuality" is threefold like the human being and, like the human being, orients itself vertically along the Earth-Sun axis — with the difference that the functions of the depths of the earth are comparable to the nerve-sense system of the human being, and those of the heights above the earth to the metabolic system. The middle between these poles is formed by the soil, comparable to the functions of the human diaphragm. The soil spreads itself horizontally like a skin over the solid earth. Within it, the working of forces of the heights and the depths concentrates and interpenetrates rhythmically, making it the primordial ground of all higher life on earth.