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enhâneerJ br¡ the proinise of â- doctoral
r,.¡ithin Pa.racelsu.s there has sÐlîung a
ì"¡^-liai F jn hiS nOttO:
-Lrrllf !¿vf,. v ¿¿¡ 1¡-
,-l,ao'-nola fnr
deeoer motive
:Llter-ius non sii, qui suus esse poies'tl
Du- sol-lt,þeins andern sin, oo d-u bestohn kannst
in dir'! oo
The virtue of this conviction lies within 'i;he vel"y art
he is ca-lled to pracl,ice" The spirit of his searcll
call-s hln to come to active terrns urith bhe illnesses
of man, rather than to dis;,¡el then r,vith the leaiher
tong;u-es of conventional iheories. In contrasl to the
Iea::ned d.octors r,¡hro flee the challerige, Paracelslts
l-n ,:rr-i n- ,."; +'1,. rL^ *-l
^^mêc
^.r..llê åì.]rì .l-.hprOhr¡
\,Vrltç'tr Uv é;r rrÐ WIULI U.tIt' J.rJ-d''iuv qrlu urrçr vvJ i rr¡v¿Ëvrquv¡ nrfi C"Oraf,eS.
(beseel,c) his ^r-r^'ì ^- r^-- x^-i.1irr iru-e to hirnself "
\uçÐee!u/ rarJ çÞtJ.-LçÈ UJ LiEr
I'he vital astlect of hís plague experience i-s
iirai he corûes into conta.ct rvith levels of the popula.-
tion r¡hich exist far out of' reach of high-ninded
scholarship" The resol-ution of his mecj-1caI ;oroblem
represenûs for his Bilo.ung an inier-r',¡eaving ancÌ
in.l,eraction of learned soïrhistication and ltnschooled.
inn^r-r,nriê fnr" even behincl- the shaclov¡ of su"persi;ition
¡¿¡r¡ v v
there lurks a srrall gleaLn of trul;h.
lrL;ncì sie r,,r"ihlten in ihrem Gl-ar-rben an Gottes
Fi-ngerzeig Pflanzen u-nri 'Iier, åo denen sie
Zeiðhen der Pesi sahen '."idesen die vom Gift
l-eben ocler ç!ít in sich tragen, ohne zugrunde
zu sehen.Tl 67