Crossword-Solution: SEELE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Why regret a philosophy of evil, a mind‐curer would ask us, if I can put you in possession of a life of good? After all, it is the life that tells; and mind‐cure has developed a living system of mental hygiene which may well claim to have thrown all previous literature of the _Diätetik der Seele_ into the shade.

Hermann Lotze's famous Medizinische Psychologie, oder Physiologie der Seele, with its challenge of the old myth of a "vital force." But the most definite expression of the new movement was signalized in 1860, when Gustav Fechner published his classical work called Psychophysik.

Thomas, he said, Zinzendorf had heard the negroes sing Luther's fine "Gelobet seiest"; at Gnadenthal, in South Africa, Ignatius La Trobe had heard the Hottentots sing Grummer's "Jesu, der du meine Seele"; in Antigua the negroes could sing Hassler's "O Head so full of bruises"; and therefore, he said, he naturally concluded that chorales which were not above the level of Negroes and Hottentots could easily be sung, if they only tried, by Englishmen, Scotchmen and Irishmen of the nineteenth century.

Ich weiss, Sire, in diesem unserm lasterhaft verfeinerten Zeitalter werde ich verlacht werden, dass mein Herz uber das Ungluck des Landes trauert, dass ich die Drangsale des Krieges beweine, und von ganzer Seele die Ruckkehr des Friedens wunsche.

War es ein Gott, der diese Zeichen schrieb, Die mir das innre Toben stillen, Das arme Herz mit Freude füllen, Und mit geheimnisvollem Trieb Die Kräfte der Natur rings um mich her enthüllen? Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht! Ich schau in diesen reinen Zügen Die wirkende Natur vor meiner Seele liegen.