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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    Hiveand it and Sl Gi gre si t.4,0mn to the imagination, a middle station to voli- tion, the highest to thought or the power of reasoning. ‘This, at least, is the order in which these activities develop in the course of the individual’s life. The boy imagines or dreams, the youth desires and acts, the man thinks. And if it be true that nature proceeds from the lower to the higher, then our scale of values stands approved. But nature also begins the processes of spiritual life with the imagination. From this point of view, too, we may follow her guidance. Imagination is the bridge between the worlds of the body and the spirit. It is a strange, changeful and mysterious faculty. One hardly knows whether to assign it to the body or the soul; whether we rule it or are ruled by it. But for that very reason it is eminently powerful in transmitting the energy of the soul to the body and hence of special import to us as a mediator. And some in- trospection will, as a matter of fact, demon- strate that neither thought nor desire may be [50]