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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    power and the insight to treat all things from this point of view will keep his spirit sane and happy. Like the faithful rotation of day and night will his inner life move in the circle of law and he will at last and blessedly comprehend that his feeling for the harmony — of the universe is that harmony itself, of which the mind that thinks it is, of course, it- self but a part. ‘To teach this truth, nature implants a feeling for its loveliness in the heart of the savage and the child. ‘To illus- trate this truth a Newton investigates the laws of the universe. And thus the purpose of man is attained: to comprehend the moving spirit of Creation and to rejoice in his knowl- edge of it. The consolation that this af- fords can not be overstated. He who has not experienced emotions of this order may consider my phrases empty: he who will at- tempt to enter that lofty region of feeling and thought will soon see an adumbration, at least, of the truth of what I say. For every man is an Anteus and grows strong in con- [ 152]