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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    man’s contemplations may become like them. The ego becomes aware of its own littleness and yet, with thoughts fixed on infinity, finds its happiness in the eternal harmony of things. It learns justice of nature’s changeless laws — nature which loves even when it destroys, in ~ which alone are truth, repose and health. All sane spirits who have given man the fruits of a pregnant solitude, have flourished amid such feelings and will ever think of nature with a deep reverence. That Lessing had no feeling for nature is a myth that grew out of a foolish paradox. It is among natural- ists that you will find those scholars who at- tain a great and serene old age. As the inti- mate study of nature, if it is to prove fruitful, necessitates a certain childlikeness of attitude ‘(such as we find in Howard and Novalis) — even so it creates this quality in those who pursue it and gives them the boon of a second youth. 3 Every effort of the spirit is, in a sense, but the study of nature. And he who has the [15r]