Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/459/en

Both belong to the line of development of the predators. With their soul-filled instinctive life they enrich the soul-body of the agricultural organism in thoroughly contrasting ways. The dog is the oldest of the domestic animals; the cat ranks among the most recent — it appears in Europe only from the first millennium BC. The type of the dog is related to that of its wild kindred, the wolf, as the type of the cat is to that of the wildcat. What strikes one especially in dogs is the great variability of forms. They

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