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

  • Feuchtersleben, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1806-1849.
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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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    imevatie tele and Suggestion conception of self into the idea of the All, leads us finally to the bosom of that living faith wherein alone are enduring serenity and cloudless health. Only he who has become small in his own esteem can feel that which is lofty and can be reached by it. ‘Therefore let us hold in our hearts that beautiful prayer ‘for a clean spirit and great thoughts.”’ Repose, inner and outer, is the first and most indispensable curative of human ills. In many cases it alone will suffice; in the rest it will be an invaluable aid of other means; in all it will prove the best preventative. And this repose is of the spirit. ‘The study of nature will induce it most certainly, for which reason that study is more to be com- mended to sensitive natures than the passion- ate zest and partisanship engendered by the contemplation of history. One’s temperament is to be curbed and balanced by the corrective of conflicting pre- occupations. Thus the active man should strive to think; the thoughtful man to act. [ 160]