Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/105/en

The consideration alone of the disparity in the conditions of production in industry and agriculture points to the fact that for the latter the organism is in the first instance the essentially appropriate formative principle of its value creation. The organism principle has always been immanent in the development of agriculture — even if under entirely differently constituted cultural conditions in each case. What today must become a matter of scientifically grounded, conscious understanding of the organism, arose in earlier times from a folk-instinctive, wisdom-filled activity. The evolution of consciousness of humanity, and with it the history of agriculture, reflects itself in broad outline in the manner in which human beings have step by step made the organism principle immanent in nature — drawn from the ever more conscious experience of their own bodily organism — the foundation of a true art of farming.

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