Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1659/en

In the experience of the idea, the head-thought becomes a heart-thought; one lives in a thought-picture that keeps growing and stands as an offer to the will — to take hold of it in freedom and let it become deed outwardly. In this will toward deed, the spirit dwelling within the idea awakens as a purposeful moral force. Therein lies the task to be sought for science into the future: that the thinking soul becomes conscious of its spiritual aim. Christian Morgenstern puts it in the words: «wer vom Ziel nicht weiß, kann den Weg nicht haben» (one who does not know the goal cannot have the path). The path to this goal is an artistic one. The goal lies in the future. One will have to develop a science that makes far-sighted toward the future, one that points humanity toward its spiritual aims for an artistic creating. If one remains true to these aims through all resistance, moral forces are unbound — forces through which one can confront the being-power of evil that obstructs development with open visor, and dedicate all striving to the being-powers of the good and to human progress. The path to the goal is the art that forms itself out of a rightly understood science — that is, a science faithful to the phenomena. If one confines oneself in science to a thinking in dead abstract concepts, technologies arise that have their present-oriented, though to the purely physical-sensory restricted

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