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Updated: June 10, 2025
He was an Aufklärer in so far as he brought reason itself to the bar of reason and sat in judgment upon its claims, and, likewise, in so far as he insisted on the objective validity of physics and mathematics. But he was as much opposed to the pretentiousness of dogmatic metaphysics as to the pusillanimity of scepticism and the Schwärmerei of mysticism.
She was returning his gaze, her eyes expressing all the Schwarmerei of which their dark depths were capable at nineteen. He was telling her what a high profession the actor's was, how great he was as an actor, how commonplace her life there, how beautiful he could make it if only he had money. It was an experience to hear Mr. Feuerstein say the word "money."
Podmore puts forward as explanations fraud; hallucinations caused by excited expectation, and by the Schwärmerei consequent on sitting in hushed hope of marvels. To take fraud first: Mr. Podmore has collected, and analyses, eleven recent sporadic cases of volatile objects. Podmore took the evidence five weeks after the events. To this example we confine ourselves.
The undisciplined mystic, in his reliance on the inner light, may fall into various kinds of Schwärmerei and superstition. In some cases he may even lose his sanity for want of a wise restraining influence. It is not an accident that America, where institutionalism is weakest, is the happy hunting-ground of religious quacks and cranks.
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