Preface.

* Drobisch, Logic 1851. Page 9.

...takes out. Objections based on orderly, logical laws of thought will always be welcome to me in the interest of science as well as for my own instruction; I am far from failing to recognize the gaps in my modest work on such an immeasurably vast subject. However, he can hear from Drobisch * that "neglect of logic leads to a slovenliness that abolishes all science." Such total neglect, however, revolts us in his hollow attacks on my investigations into sensitivity and Od Reichenbach's term for a hypothetical vital energy or life force he believed permeated all living things, against whose high intellectual significance he knows only how to oppose shallow frivolity. In an unworthy manner, he aims directly at the suppression and abolition of the knowledge laboriously gained therein. Had he possessed even a glimmer of the polar dualism The concept that the human body possesses opposite poles of energy, similar to a magnet in the human body—which is conditioned solely by the Od and specifically governs its first embryonic development—he would have found cause not only to interpret many things differently in his "Physiological Letters," but to fundamentally rebuild the entire systematic structure of his presentation. Certainly, this would have been more beneficial to him than flat, baseless insults against a new doctrine, of which he currently lacks both knowledge and understanding in equal measure.