Mesmerism, or System of Interactions

a great deal of impetus for the Schellingian philosophy of nature, which, prepared by Kant's critical philosophy, united Idealismus idealism (or Fichtianism) and Spinozismus Spinozism in a center of polarity, such that they served as numerous examples of the irrefutable view of nature based on polarity. The good that mainly grew out of this was a reverence and a holy awe of nature, by which any presumptuous limitation and confinement into arbitrarily assumed laws was banished. Thus, the ground was prepared more and more in the minds of the newer naturalists and physicians, in which the magnificent plant could take root and thrive, which a spirit—as unique as it was unshakably steadfast—had lifted from the bosom of nature, having previously tried in vain to cultivate it for the healing of mankind and to disseminate it generally. Now, people began to find the long-publicized facts of magnetism credible, and the best and most insightful part of the German naturalists no longer doubted the reality of magnetism. New experiments and new facts were added, which served to confirm the earlier ones.

Nevertheless, the truth of this important matter had not yet been purely grasped, since one remained only with