500 11. To the workwoman in Rohrau, Elisabeth, nee bohme,......
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
Like the obscure philosopher of early Greek speculation, he believed in the identity of contraries; like Plato, he was an idealist, and had all the idealist's contempt for utilitarian systems; he was a mystic like Dionysius, and Scotus Erigena, and Jacob bohme, and held, with them and with Philo, that the object of life was to get rid of self-consciousness, and to become the unconscious vehicle of a higher illumination.
"Reviews"
Oscar Wilde