FRANZ: [cont.]
Doctors and philosophers all tell me how marvellously
the inclinations of the mind harmonise with those of the
machine it lives in. Convulsive seizures are inevitably
accompanied by dissonant vibrations in the machine;
passions damage the vital force; the overloading of the
spirit weighs down the vehicle. What then? If one could
find how to smooth this untrodden road for Death to
enter the very fortress of life! how to destroy the body
via the soul! An incompara
