HANS THOMA (Né le 2 octobre 1839 à Bernau (Forêt-Noire), Allemagne – décédé le 7 novembre 1924 à Karlsruhe, Allemagne à l’âge de 85 ans) était un peintre allemand dont le style évolua à partie des années 1880 vers une forme de naturalisme magique et fantastique, puisant dans la renaissance allemande.
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SASCHA SCHNEIDER (March 24, 2016)
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
