The dietetics of the soul / by Ernest von Feuchtersleben.
- Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The dietetics of the soul / by Ernest von Feuchtersleben. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![A DIAKY. 20] as well as for every other form of human effort. We may either consider ourselves as a central point, and endeavour to maintain life against the influence of external agents, seeking to increase our powers by the development of character— a mode which may be termed the subjective or moral (Kant). Or, we may abandon ourselves freely to the world and endeavour to assimilate ourselves to external things, considering and treating our- selves as a portion of the universal whole—a mode which we may term the objective or poetic (Goethe). The single and normal character of Nature make these opposite methods tend to the same object; even as the poles are attracted towards each other. For the individual who will but rightly de- velope the subjective in himself, will promote the grand aun of the universal whole, whose parts are all subjectively related to it; and he who faithfully reflects the objects around him, will learn to understand his own nature and so regain individuality by this sacrifice of self Either method may be followed with advan- tage ; but each is suited to a special character,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292243_0217.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
