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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    INTRODUCTION Our time is swift, stormy and frivolous. Hence to direct the attention from the dis- couraging life of the present, from the still more discouraging spectacle of a literature wavering amid a thousand meaningless ten- dencies, to the calm regions of the inner man, the contemplation of ourselves — this is to render a genuine service to the public mind. In such reflections we become aware of our connection with the sum of things, of our purpose and of our duty. Serenely resigning the world, which can grant us but little, we feel that the peace we had thought lost takes up its dwelling with us again and that a sec- ond innocence sheds its soothing light over our being. The game of rimes to which only the hand of genius can lend a pregnant symbolism may employ the youthful hours [15]