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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    some deeply earnest hour, have determined to rule himself and he must be true to this de- termination throughout life. He will experi- ence relapses, without doubt. But steady, willing and steady practice will make each step easier, until the final victory is gained. Hence it is man’s duty to lay this categori- cal imperative upon himself, and to oppose this new and stronger I to the indecision that may come upon him. Similarly a distraught state of the soul must be met by a collection of all the faculties. He who is a slave of evil habits must tear himself free, and he who is at the mercy of the moment — let him turn stringently to the habit of righteousness. Let us develop in ourselves the might of thought and let the understanding be fixed upon the ego. ‘Thus that knowledge of self which is analogous to the restraint of the will can come into being. To these should be added such genuine and vital science as will teach us the divinity of knowledge. And the highest knowledge, teaching us to merge the [r1s9]