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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture I
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  • everything which is said will have Anthroposophy itself as a
  • agricultural problems. But what we shall say to-day of things
  • discuss the principles of Economics involved. These things must
  • or in anything else so long as people do not realise that this
  • is mere talk and nothing more; one must go back to the practical
  • it comes to other things. The turnip is regarded as growing
  • surroundings. And thus in practical life many things are
  • spiritual insight, to discover things which can be
  • would do nothing of the sort and preferred to go by Professor
  • physico-chemical constituents, but of something which lies
  • but it actually is the case in regard to many things in life.
  • these things are not noticed, because the social phenomenon
  • that everything on earth is only a reflection of what takes
  • general the first thing we have to take into account is the
  • nearly one half of everything on the earth. And vet so
  • would be useless and yield nothing of any food value. It is
  • everything siliceous contains forces that come, not from the
  • let us turn to the plants themselves. There are two things to
  • used for food, which do nothing but reproduce themselves, we
  • is to him something abstract consisting of oxygen,
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture II
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  • words, everything that is needed to bring forth agricultural
  • Anything brought in from outside, such as manure and the like,
  • farm should be able to bring forth from itself everything that
  • thing. As long as we neglect the inner nature and essence
  • of things and regard them only from their outer material
  • being something purely mineral into which at the best organic
  • of breathing and circulation which work up into the head. Under
  • other hand, everything that takes place within the earth, under
  • The first and foremost thing to know about clay is that it
  • These things will take on a very different aspect in future
  • They become “more dead,” they lose something of
  • the new thing that is built up is always the image of some
  • A B C of everything concerning the growth of the plant
  • the primitive species which then existed. Nowadays these things
  • these things. Humanity has no other alternative before it
  • Earth? but he hardly knows anything of what happens
  • are things which will have to become understood and known.
  • Those who are interested in these things should try to examine
  • things apply especially to embryonic life). The light*
  • the forms of things we shall see in what sense an agricultural
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture III
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  • us therefore start with carbon. The bearing which these things
  • in carbon nowadays is something with which to heat their
  • ovens (coal) or something with which to write graphite. Its
  • like a palm tree, the breathing process wrenches it out of its
  • But the main thing is that the etheric element is in both cases
  • is this that gives meaning to the breathing process. When
  • senses. Once it has entered into us through breathing, it comes
  • can it be anything else. But every science which limits itself
  • have the human process of breathing, represented in man by the
  • There is, indeed, something very wonderful about
  • we have an insight into the breathing process. When he
  • earth not only comes to life but becomes something which has a
  • pours out over everything a living web of sensitive lire. Above
  • all nitrogen knows all those secrets of which we know nothing
  • handling of nitrogen something is done which is of enormous
  • the meantime, there is, however, one thing more to be
  • lived on a farm, but wished to remain independent of everything
  • spirit transformed into something physical. After a time, the
  • fact dissolves everything.
  • They are therefore something quite different from which
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture IV
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  • Everything was very scientific — it was all
  • nutrition of anything living.
  • important thing about nutrition was what one ate every
  • and the breathing in a highly-attenuated state and only becomes
  • etc.” is quite wrong. It should run: “Breathing,
  • science is unable to understand certain things even when they
  • these things are to be rightly handled, it is necessary to gain
  • make quite a wrong use of things if we do not understand their
  • as strange that I should place these two things side by side,
  • in something already alive. Fundamentally all plant
  • something further which must “be understood. One must
  • enter into a personal relationship with everything that comes
  • inner side of every living thing has. not only streams of force
  • There is something which expresses very exactly although in a
  • living things mutually support one another in Nature. This
  • fragrance of flowers which is diffused and which is something
  • to all these things, only then are we really one with
  • the main thing to understand is that manuring and the like must
  • The best way to approach these things will be to take the most
  • remains of dead beasts, etc. These things should by no
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture V
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  • been made. And only those things should be opposed, If I may
  • not something which it is important to implant or breed: one
  • thoughts on these things should weave within the whole
  • in manure, either solid or liquid — indeed anything
  • explained yesterday, but with other things as well. It is not
  • shall mention various things, but wish to emphasise that in
  • structure) the main thing is that this potash content shall be
  • have given for yarrow, we have therefore something fundamental
  • living world, we have something which only needs to be exposed
  • but you must remember that many things which have at first
  • thing we usually want to stroke it: I refer to the stinging
  • things. It, too, bears that within it, which introduces the
  • it really had some nous. It will not allow anything to decay in
  • especially its bark. In the bark, we have something which is at
  • substance contains something which, when it is added to our
  • still need something, however, which will attract silicic acid
  • are certain things constantly going on around us of which
  • science knows nothing. If people knew something about them it
  • would be easier for them to accept such things as I have been
  • thinker will exclaim: “But you have told us nothing of
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VI
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  • starting-point of experiments, may lead on to something
  • those things which we have been discussing during the
  • to take these things into account. Ignorance of the cosmic
  • not the only thing which reaches the Earth. Together with the
  • (Everything that affects the Moon is reflected. And though this
  • strength. If something to be grown is placed in the soil at new
  • this alone does not help us any further. For, as things are,
  • nothing to stop its influence. Furthermore, in wet years
  • things were contained in the old instinctive husbandry.
  • wisdom. From what I have said, you can see that these things
  • — obtains that everything must be verified, I urge you to
  • put these things to the test. If you carry through the
  • things are practicable. I look at it in this way: the truths of
  • certainly ought to have known that things can be true in and
  • For we know things inwardly, i.e., that they are true through
  • how these things work out. Let us take an old friend of the
  • These things have been done, or at any rate they have been
  • field-mouse and skin it. The main thing is to get this skin
  • influences. We have to undertake something quite definite with
  • nematode, we have something very abnormal. If one enquires into
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VII
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  • things are neatly sorted and fitted into genera and species, as
  • though they were being put into boxes. But things are not like
  • being as a whole, all things are in mutual interaction. One
  • thing is always being affected by another. In these
  • interaction are noted, such as when one thing is eaten or
  • fruit tree — apple, pear or plum — is something
  • A thing like that does not, of course, exist in the soil, but such
  • thing is true of the grubs.
  • vegetable world, for in every plant there lives something that
  • course of the development of the earth something very wonderful
  • things are connected; the world of winged animals and all that
  • and the farmer should know something about the breeding and
  • must repeat this again and again — everything, everything
  • very wide area, will have to be undertaken by something quite
  • other things which — and that is why I have expounded
  • and learned through their feelings how to go about things; and
  • Anthroposophy is by no means something clever and intellectual
  • wisdom in all things and not be content merely to learn
  • we should introduce this knowledge into everything; then one
  • — and to see things in Nature as they really are. We
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VIII
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  • of combustion in the organism. But no such thing takes place
  • the organism means something quite different from a process of
  • something different from a quartz crystal, so what is
  • something which is living and even sentient. The mere fact of
  • something which does not fit in with what is going on in
  • Here something of great importance takes place. I have
  • breathing. What the animal eats serves only to stimulate its
  • collecting it. If animals feed in the right way on the things
  • course, things must be ordered in such a way that the circuit
  • case is different. But the main thing is to know the directions
  • a fanatical view of things. Under our present economic
  • moment something like this is put forward and you know how
  • things really are and their true connections, you will know
  • We immediately think of flaxseed (linseed) or something
  • every single thing, we must know what happens to it when it
  • in the direction of breathing and the metabolic
  • to prove effectual. The same thing happens in farming. People
  • any better. Because of the circumstances, something which ought
  • Something similar to this happens when one experiments
  • for fattening stock. But the whole thing has become so
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Appendix
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  • have the poppies destroyed. It is such things as these which
  • farmers for they have experience in the things which are
  • restricted a sphere, because the vital process is something
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Contents
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  • Breathing of Man
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Preface
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  • methods and their application and took things in hand
  • could have around them the things and processes to which the
  • the things which he connected with conversations on
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 12th June, 1924.
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  • is no doubt that stirring by hand is something quite different
  • prepared by hand or not. Man imparts something to the things he
  • generally in the usual way they would lose something
  • do wonders. If. however, the thing is done merely then the
  • great thing is that the ingredients should be thoroughly
  • plants will bear long halms with nothing on them.
  • The forces of foreign horns might work against the things in
  • of rain, this is something which only further research can
  • seed formation. We could, of course, do something by making the
  • is made? Would it be necessary to do something to preserve the
  • whether this has any ill-effects. But the obvious thing is to
  • wither and die. These are simple facts. These things that are
  • We enter upon a state in which such things can become
  • obvious today as they were in the past when these things were
  • constantly moving about among people who disregard such things.
  • therefore hesitate to talk freely of such. thing's before a
  • one can do such things. The period lying between the middle of
  • Among the many things, which, as a young man, I
  • things that touch their lives. Such a book could have been a
  • real thing has been lost. Forty or fifty years ago this was not
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• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 13th June, 1924.
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  • All these things are so connected that it is not good to take
  • “tradition” so to speak, anything can serve
  • to freshen it up. But if you go on too long, the same thing
  • thing is the generation of heat in the manure, for the activity
  • opinions and nothing more. Nobody knows whether they have been
  • something harmful among the hay, but I believe that in that
  • thing to remember. When preparing a product for a particular
  • After all, medicines are usually poisonous. The important thing
  • curious thing to hear emphasis being laid upon the harmfulness
  • allowed to grow anything?
  • is quite a good thing for something, even cultivated
  • important thing is that the preparation should be
  • completely shut in by the manure. The whole thing depends upon
  • ANSWER: Remember what I said. I said: The essential thing
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 14th June, 1924.
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  • that really we have no right to ask whether things are
  • of civilisation there have been periods when such things were
  • be prepared to do something concrete for 'this moral
  • mischief that might arise. In Nature itself, things which are
  • only to say what things are. The question of what they ought to
  • bull-headedly against everything would surely only bring harm
  • bladders, but how many things that are difficult are not done
  • attempt to use anything except the bladder of some animal. I
  • anything organic is dealt with, but it need not come into our
  • everything. If they have proved their value they should be
  • tend nowadays to judge things after too short periods of trial.
  • should watch these things carefully. Everything is being
  • Nature. Unless it is incorporated in something else you
  • should not put anything completely lifeless, like a
• Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 16th June, 1924.
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  • different if these things are carried further and further. It
  • so that people simply do not know how certain things
  • Whenever anything new appears, it is usually regarded at
  • use the thing. It is strange how, when something new appears,
  • thing in the world which ought to be introduced into a living
  • repulsive measures when there is nothing to be repelled, the
  • ANSWER: The great thing here is to find a certain optimum and
  • as to submit everything it absorbs to the most varied changes.
  • Everything that enters into an organism must be changed. This
  • Nothing that comes into the living organism from outside
  • something else. This process takes place to the least extent m
  • ANSWER: The main thing about an inner attitude is whether it is
  • about these things. In my lecture to-day I pointed out that we
  • can know something and then actually see it before us. We can
  • connections that exist between things. Suppose you draw a fish
  • out of the sea and kill it. Then you have killed something. You
  • vast amount of life. This is something quite different from
  • different level. If something in Nature passes on towards a
  • .it, but I rather think the best thing to do is to rub in a