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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    this kind must surely find its strongest sup- port in the spiritual nature of man. An in- ner activity is the condition of self-preserva- tion; the development of the spiritual in man is, again, the condition of inner activity. The potency of thought in any human being is the measure of the originality and sponta- neity of his own life. He lives, he is, in proportion as his soul is active. It is true that a thousand varying influences lie in wait for the poor mortal, that the whole world is such an influence, but the strongest of all is the character of man. Character isman. For as all beings are but the symbols of power, so man has nothing of his own but the energy through which he reveals him- self. And if the native energy of his soul flag, let him impose upon himself conditions that demand its expenditure — let him seek circumstances in which volition is unavoid- able! It is an old and true observation that the traveler and the bridegroom are generally immune to disease and death. [ 36]