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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    vecaalitel and Sig Gee Sit om the sake of such an one though he were rich as Midas.” If this point of view seem to us not only antique but antiquated there is yet enough truth in it to make it worth our consideration. Intelligent men have always considered that species of hypochondria of which I am speak- ing as a mere nothing. One of the most intel- lectual of these—himself a victim — namely, Kant, proceeds like a true German philosopher, and annihilates the obstacle in his path. He asserts all men who insist upon the reality of hypochondria to be unreason- ing. ‘If morbid fears attack him he seeks their cause. If he find none or find that the cause, though real, is beyond the reach of his activity, he turns boldly to the necessary business of life. He lets the anxiety lie by as though it did not concern him and pro- ceeds to those matters that constitute his duty.”’ This determination has our complete approval. And we know that Kant succeeded in carrying it out. For the sage of Koenigs- P3888]