Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn.

  • Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
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1919, ©1910
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Credit: Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A word must be said of the character of the following translation of the Didtetik der Seele. Like all but the greatest Ger- man writers Feuchtersleben was far more felicitous in his use of verse than in his use of prose. His prose style is, as a matter of fact, amorphous, wordy and professorial in the old-fashioned German way. But an English-speaking public demands, rightly, clearness of outline and definiteness of ex- pression. Hence the present version, though conscientiously faithful to Feuchtersleben’s sense, has been almost entirely recast from the point of view of form. By this method the translator has hoped to gain for his au- thor a wider and less hesitant appreciation. | ea New York, January, 1910. [ir]