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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    least of all, to find any reflection upon the fancies that we are here pursuing. In this book I find expressed much that I felt, but hardly ventured to put into words. Let me set it down for what it is worth. ‘Ts it so foolish to suppose that the action between body and spirit is a complete inter- action, that, therefore, the permeating soul can affect the world without us and, in mani- festing its highest energy, even work its will upon the earth itself? To conclude rigor- ously, to be dissatisfied with imperfect infer- ences, would mean the acceptance of this truth. Thus one could suggest the hypothesis that the good man cleanses the earth and air about him, but that evil thought and deed foul their own habitation. Think of the popular belief concerning the scenes of mur- der. And for the perception of truths deeply rooted in nature, popular mythology is a val- uable source; for it takes its rise in men and women whose alert senses have not been dulled by the exercise of reflection. One won- [39]