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Microcosmus, Vol. 2: An Essay Concerning Man and His Relation to the World (Classic Reprint)
Microcosmus Vol 2 An Essay Concerning Man and His Relation to the World - Classic Reprint Author:Hermann Lotze CHAPTER I. THE INFLUENCES OF EXTERNAL NATURE. History, and the Microcosmic Order-The Effects of Cosmic and Terrestrial Influences upon the Human Soul-Parallelism between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm-Natural Features of a Country, and Character of the Inhabitants-Life with Nature-Relation of Man to Nature. § 1 "OY/fjOXE times which arc beyond ... more »the reach of our own recollection seem to imagination extremely obscure. All the serious interests of life and nil the tvilliug and folly by which we ourselves are stirred, are so closely bound up with clear and definite images of our surroundings, that we feel perplexed and astray when we would picture to ourselves the same varied wealth of existence iu times divided from the- present by an infinite series of changes by which the background and accessories of life have been transformed We almost fancy that in those olden days the sun must have shone with a different radiance, that the voices of Nature must have spoken in different tones, a
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; BOOK VI; THE MICKOCOSMIC ORDER;1 OR, THE COURSE OF HUMAN LIFE (Der Weltlavf); CHAPTER I; THE INFLUENCES OF EXTERNAL NATURE; 8B» 1-aok; 1 History, and the Microcosmic Order, 3-6; 2 Effects of Cosmic and Terrestrial Influences upon the Human; Soul-Parallelism between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, 6-13; 3 Natural Features of a Country, and Character of the Inhabitants; -Life with Nature, 13-20; 4 Relation of Man to Nature, 20-23; CHAPTER II; THE NATURE OF MAN; 1 Temperaments-The Meaning of Temperament, 24-26; 2 Differences of Temperament-The Successive Stages of Human; Life-Connection between the Vital Feelings which have a; Corporeal and those which have a Mental Origin, 26-39; 3 Differences between the Sexes-General Mental Peculiarities of; Women, 39-47; 4 Heredity, and Original Difference of Endowment, 47-49; CHAPTER III; MANNERS AND MORALS; 1 Conscience and Moral Taste-Untrustworthiness of Na« less