International Minds And the Search for the Restful
International Minds And the Search for the Restful
Gustav Pollak
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V'uiis. 136 INTERNATIONAL MINDS of change of occupation does wonders in keep- ing off the 'Vapors. " Withdrawal from 'the world engenders moroseness and, according to Plato, promotes obstinacy. But so does constant living with and in the world; therefore let us learn to live both with and without the world, and we shall find in suitable change health and good spirits. All the various conditions due to ill-regulated nerves may be overcome by will power, just as certain morbid conditions may be b...rought on by the absence of that power. In the human organism slumber unsuspected forces, which may be awakened by the firm will. The stoi- cism of the ancients — the purest, loftiest, and most practical of all pre-Christian doctrines — has proved to the world what may be accom- plished by will power. Let no one imagine that the disciples of the stoic schools were steeled by cold syllogisms; it was the power of the will that wrought their miracles of endurance. There is perhaps no more remarkable phe- nomenon in the develooment of man's nature 1 than the influence of abstract thought on his concrete organism through that connecting link THE HYGIENE OF THE SOUL 137 which may be termed "intellectual emotion.
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