{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 354/1924-09-20/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But now what about potatoes? Suppose a scientist or a doctor were asked to say what effect potatoes have when they are eaten. As you know, potatoes have become a staple. In some places it is very difficult to dissuade the people from feeding almost exclusively on them. What does the modern scientist do when he tests potatoes for their nutritional value? He makes a laboratory investigation to find what substances are contained in the potato. He finds carbohydrates, which consist of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in definite proportions; he also discovers that in the human body these substances are finally transformed into a kind of sugar. But he gets no further than that; nor can he do so. For think of this: if some animal is fed on milk, it may thrive. But if the milk is analyzed for its chemical components and if these chemical components are given to the animal instead of the milk, it will waste away for lack of nourishment. Why is that? It is because something is working in the milk in addition to the chemical components. And in the potato, too, there is something more than the mere chemical components: namely, the spiritual element. A spiritual element works everywhere, in all of nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIII","site_heading":"Spiritual Science as Foundation for Understanding Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wenn heute irgend jemand sagen würde, ein Naturwissenschafter oder ein Mediziner solle sagen, wie eigentlich die Kartoffel wirkt, wenn sie gegessen wird — was tut er? Sie wissen ja, die Kartoffel ist allmählich ein Nahrungsmittel geworden, und es ist außerordentlich schwer, in manchen Gegenden die Leute davon abzubringen, daß sie sich fast ausschließlich von Kartoffeln nähren. Nun, was tut der heutige Naturforscher, wenn er die Kartoffel auf ihren Nährwert prüft? Ja, er untersucht, was da in der Kartoffel an Stoffen drinnen ist. Das kann man ja natürlich im Laboratorium untersuchen, was in der Kartoffel an Stoffen drinnen ist. Man findet da Kohlehydrate, die also bestehen aus Kohlenstoff, Sauerstoff und Wasserstoff, die in einer bestimmten Weise angeordnet sind. Man kommt noch dazu, einzusehen, daß sich im menschlichen Körper diese Stoffe umwandeln, daß sie zuletzt zu einer Art von Zucker werden, aber man kommt nicht weiter damit. Man kann auch nicht weiterkommen. Denn, sehen Sie, wenn man irgendeinem Tier, das man mit Milch füttern will, Milch gibt, so kann es unter Umständen ganz gut gedeihen. Wenn man aber die Milch in ihre chemischen Bestandteile zerlegt und untersucht, aus was sie besteht, und nun statt der Milch dem Tiere diese chemischen Bestandteile gibt, krepiert das Tier dabei, kann sich nicht ernähren. Worauf beruht das? Das beruht darauf, daß noch etwas anderes in den chemischen Bestandteilen in der Milch wirkt. Und so wirkt auch in der Kartoffel noch etwas anderes als die bloßen chemischen Bestandteile. Das ist das Geistige dabei. 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