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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    see powerful and positive natures exert upon delicate and undecided ones, are all referable to similar causes. Even the reasoning of a distinguished individuality does not become ours wholly until the individuality itself has touched our imagination. ‘The man of genius affects the world long before he is understood. He touches the imagination of men and draws them into the circle of his spiritual percep- tions. : These phenomena are symbolic of the loft- iest manifestations of human life. A spirit- ual atmosphere, comparable to the physical one, surrounds the world — surrounds each century and even each day. This atmosphere is the combined result of the influences of all the individuals in a given epoch. Once formed, however, it reacts again upon each unit in the human mass. Thoughts, percep- tions and images float unseen about us. We breathe them in, assimilate them and com- municate them again without being conscious of any of these processes. One could then [so]