Bernstein, Aaron, Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbücher, Bd. 12-16, 1897

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            zu geben. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s825" xml:space="preserve">Er iſt daher gleich dem Phlegmatiſchen unempfindlich
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            für flüchtige Freuden und verſinkt gleich dem Choleriſchen
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            immer ſchnell in ſeine Neigung zurück, ſich als ein Weſen zu
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            betrachten, das zur Freude nicht geſchaffen iſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s826" xml:space="preserve">Er mißtraut
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            daher jeder angenehmen Begegnung und ahnt, daß Unheil da-
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            hinter für ihn lauert. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s827" xml:space="preserve">Er empfindet die Beleidigung, wo ſie
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            ihm gar nicht galt, ſieht ſich zurückgeſetzt, gekränkt und wird
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            mutlos, zaghaft, verzweifelnd und gefällt ſich derart in ſeinem
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            Mißgeſchick, daß es ihn ärgert, wenn er eine freudige Über-
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            raſchung erfährt, und er ſich einbildet, daß man ihn nur habe
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            freudig anregen wollen, um ihn durch das Gegenteil zu erinnern,
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            wie unglücklich er ſei.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s829" xml:space="preserve">Ob die Melancholie wirklich ein Temperament oder nur
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            eine krankhafte Erſcheinung iſt, läßt ſich ſchwer entſcheiden.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s830" xml:space="preserve">Für unſer Thema muß es genügen zu erkennen, wie die geiſtigen
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            Richtungen der Menſchen in gewiſſe Klaſſen zu bringen ſind,
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            und in dieſe Klaſſen gehören jedenfalls die zwei Haupt-Tempe-
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            ramente, das ſanguiniſche und phlegmatiſche, welche wir als
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            Gepräge ganzer Nationen wahrnehmen, während das choleriſche
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            und melancholiſche nur vereinzelt und möglicherweiſe nur als
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            krankhafte Abarten auftreten.</s>
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            <emph style="bf">XVIII. Das Rätſel des Todes.</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s832" xml:space="preserve">Wir haben vom Leben und ſeinen wichtigſten Erſcheinungen
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            in Pflanze, Tier und Menſch geſprochen und wollen nun vom
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            Ende, vom letzten Rätſel des Lebens, dem Tode, ein Wort
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            ſagen.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s834" xml:space="preserve">Freilich ſpricht man vom Leben lieber, weil das Leben
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            ſelbſt den Unglücklichſten mit tiefen, geheimnisvollen Banden
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            der Liebe umſchlingt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s835" xml:space="preserve">vom Gedanken des Todes wendet </s>
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