Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man

CONTENTS

Foreword by Marie Steiner

1. The Circulation of Fluids in the Earth – 9 February, 1924

2. The Life of the Earth in the Past and the Future – 17 February, 1923

3. On Nutrition – 22 September, 1923

4. Effects of Substances in the Cosmos and in the Human Body. Iron, Sodium, Carbon, Chlorine – 27 October, 1923

5. On the Growth of Plants. Causes of Infantile Paralysis – 31 October, 1923

6. On Poisonous Substances and Their Effects – 19 January, 1924.

Lectures I and II, translated by M. Cotterell; Lectures III and VI, by D. S. Osmond; Lectures IV and V, by V. E. Evans.

NOTE. — The lectures in this volume have been selected from the very large number given regularly by Dr. Steiner to the workmen employed at the Goetheanum. The two preceding volumes of the same series contain lectures dealing with the religious life and ideas of ancient peoples and the significance of the Christian impulse.