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

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.

They are, in their essential structure, man’s reactions against the world.