ISBN : 2738476481
SPIRIT AND MATTER
Axel Steensberg
"Not are we peasants goose although we look grey" sounds a
genuine Medieval tale. As a peasant, born in a poor moor region
in western Jutland, I have been aware of how diversified apparently
anonymous countrymen are in different parts of the world,
and how inventive they could be inside their own practise. Most
scholars grown up in urban circles of the western world are,
however, inclined to produce "armchair philosophy", admirable
like when one observes equilibrists' spectacular manoeuvre. But it
requires more inventive spirit, persistance and insight to plan and
perform fundamentallongtime experiments with a reconstructed
wheelplough and a study of marks of wear appearing on their
working parts of the implements. They proved to be a kind of
"Hieroglyphs", which tells