Philosophical Library/Open Road

Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.

The herbs were then burned.

To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.

remote parts of the Highlands.

Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs

Metaphysics thinks Existence as such, in general. Metaphysics thinks Existence as such, that is, in the Whole. Metaphysics thinks the Being of Existence in the fathoming unity of the greatest generality, that is, the universal equivalence, as well as in the understanding unity of totality, which is highest above all els

The existant which we must analyze,” writes Heidegger, “is our self. The being of this existant is mine.”1

Thus, the idea of man can be only the sum of the established facts which it allows us to unite.

All the same, the psychologist grants that man has emotions because experience teaches him so.

he thing which differentiates every inquiry about man from other types of rigorous questions is precisely the privileged fact that human reality is ourselves.