Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/153/en

had its life in the old Hellenistic mysteries, and from which it could be outwardly formed into art. "The Roman [...] shaped not only stone and bronze, but the entire great commonwealth of human beings according to his spirit." "Republican Rome is nothing other than human wisdom taking the place of the old priestly wisdom." Here it is human cleverness that now regulates the relationship of person to person; this is the birth-hour of jurisprudence. It is built purely upon the feeling of personality, upon the I revealing itself in the intellectual soul or mind soul. The sense of right awakens, and out of this arise legal concepts that honour the principle of equality and find expression in universally valid law. Law relates primarily to the objects of this earthly world — and thus also to personal disposability over land. Property, and with it the law of inheritance, the disposability reaching beyond death, has its origin there. In the Roman, the human being becomes wholly personality. His consciousness turns toward a counterpart — toward the other human being and toward the nature surrounding him. Out of this arises a relationship that, in contrast to the ancient Greek, lives itself forth in a more distanced, conceptual manner; he thinks rationally out of himself, and thereby makes himself capable for the earth. The organisms in natural growth of Italy and Sicily, geomorphologically kindred to the Greek, are no longer a spirit-permeated exterior that sounds together with the inner life of spirit. The Roman's gaze is directed more strongly toward geopolitical interests, toward the utility of natural resources under imperial considerations — in military as well as in agricultural respects.