By Novalis Novalis, David W. Wood
The first English translation of Novalis's unfinished notes for a common science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon
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The study of antiquities must be learned (physical) and poetic. Is there a central antiquity—or a universal spirit of antiquities? Mystical sense for forms. Antiquities make contact with not one, but all the senses, the whole of humanity. 53. If the exposition of mathematics can be treated mathematically, then physics too may also be expounded physically, and so forth. 54. PHYSICAL HISTORY. Examination of the question: whether or not Nature has significantly altered with the growth of culture? Novalis: Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia 9 55.
THEORY OF HISTORY AND SPACE. Synthesis of space and time individuals. —visible abundance of time (abundance of space). —Formation of time. Temporal natures are like wine—the older they become, the better—fermentation—clarification—spiritualization—They become oilier. (Oil, symbol of the spirit—its body). Time arises with facts (motion)—space with matter. e. ) 174. THEORY OF MAN. Man may thereby ennoble everything (make it worthy of himself), if he but wills it. 175. ARTISTICS. Ideal paintings of minerals and plants—Ideal sculptures of animals.
MEDICINE. —In one illness, the stomach sets the tone, in another, the lungs and so on. 5. 1Ͼ 6. ϽAttributes—Signatures. Heraldry. Ͼ 7. ϽWas Raphael a painter of the soul? Ͼ 8. ϽAt the present time physics is but mass—only consists of isolated masses. Ͼ 9. Ͼ 10. 4Ͼ 11. ϽHistory of Nature. Descriptions of Nature. Description of electricity— magnetism etc. ) Treatise on the laws of Nature. Ͼ 12. TELEOLOGY. Everything that is desirable to discard is but false opinion—error. Illness and affliction are only such in and through the imagination—they are not to be maintained.