Mesmerism, or System of Interactions

and solidified the false opinion that had been formed regarding magnetism. For the foundation of the dominance of "French-ness" original: "Franzosenthum"; referring to the unquestioning adoption of French intellectual trends in people's minds was already so strongly prepared that Germany’s naturalists at that time, without closer investigation, viewed this report as an irrefutable decision because famous names seemed to authenticate it. It is important to hear the voice of the remarkable man himself on this matter. *) See "Explanations regarding Magnetism and Somnambulism" by Mesmer. Halle 1812; also in the "Askläpieion" a medical journal, September and October issues, 1812.

"The stubborn resistance that was initially opposed to the progress of this method did not deter me from continuing my observations, and the more I found these confirmed by my earlier conjectures, the more I strove to attain the perfection of many physical insights and to correct them, in order to build upon them the system of the inner mechanism of nature, from which a new "science of preservation" original: "Erhaltungskunde" as a component of the same was to emerge.

"The reputation of my new method and the facts that certified its reliability soon drew envy and ingratitude upon me to such a