May. What Hegelian philosophy, according to the enlightened judgment of the Literarische Zeitung , has been unable to achieve, namely, construct a system of natural sciences based upon its principles, the Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung is now undertaking most successfully from its standpoint. Were it not for these views, the history of the world would seem to be the most crying injustice. I meant to say religious principles on which Leo, who would be worthy to fraternise with a Ringseis, bases his new medical practice. But let him not fear the red-hot steel or the sharp iron, or the fierce hunger, where these alone can help.
Feeble help is as harmful in medicine as in civil society.
And nothing but good can come from making punishments more severe. Now that beheading, as we have seen above, is no longer a punishment but merely a medical amputation to save the body, this manner of death must be deleted from the criminal codes and replaced by breaking on the wheel, quartering, piercing with the spit, burning, pinching with red-hot tongs, etc. Thus Leo opposes a system of medicine and jurisprudence that has become heathenish with a Christian one, which will indubitably soon prevail everywhere.