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Excerpt from Confessions of a Provincial Editor Confucianism never had a stronger hold on China and Japan than the church dogma had on the Philippines. Originality was a species of disloyalty. The mind of the Tagalo was restive in its ecclesiastical fetters. The insurrec tion of 1896 served to show the temper Of the people toward church control, and explains the desire for modern educa tion. The insurrection of 1896 was hardly over when the U...

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Die 'Sieben Verteidigungsreden' von 1538, eine der letzten Schriften aus Paracelsus' Feder, antworten auf Vorwürfe, die ihn über viele Lebensjahre hinweg verfolgt haben. Sie sprechen sparsam, doch mehr als jeder andere Text von seiner Person, seiner fühlbaren menschlichen Isolierung, seiner mangelnden Menschenkenntnis, seiner sachlichen Leidenschaft, seiner Heftigkeit, seiner zutiefst christlichen Haltung als Arzt. Indem Paracelsus sich verte...

Gott, Welt, Mensch - dieser Dreiklang durchtönt die ganze, gewaltige paracelsische Schau. In tiefem Ringen um die wahre Erkenntnis des Menschen und dessen Einbezogensein in die hierarchischen Ordnungen erscheint Paracelsus, dieser große Einsame, am Schnittpunkt zweier Welten. Mittelalterlich-gläubiger Christ, unerschrockener moderner Forschergeist und hilfreicher Arzt zugleich, überspannt er in einem kühnen Geistesbogen alle Gegensätze zu eine...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist. Little is known of his biography beyond his legendary achievements...