Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/581/en

When one works down from the sphere of free willing, of individual initiative, into that in which from the creation of trust the sense of right holds sway — of being an equal among equals — a new field of experience arises for the thinking consciousness (Figure 10, p. 172). In everyday consciousness, thinking supports itself on the sense-perceptible appearance. In the social realm it must raise itself from this toward a world of phenomena that come into being only in social togetherness. These are the expression of what moves human beings in a spiritual-moral way. Ways of acting are the phenomenon, and thinking must now strive to research paths by which the manifold of these predominantly instinct-guided modes of behavior of human nature can be directed into right channels. Here, in the sphere of social life, thinking no longer merely reflects what is sense-perceptible; it stands before the challenge of actively bringing forth something that does not yet exist or is only just now coming into being. It

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