Einsidedln-Egg, Switzerland/einsiedeln258
Previous | Home | NextOn the right side of the monument is this quotation of Paracelsus explaining his famous apology. In this quotation he is trying to compensate for a lack of literary education with pompousness - with mixed results. The essence is that under harsh conditions but led by God as a wandering Swiss he learned some of God's ways.
"Since I cannot claim to be proficient in rhetorics or subtleties, instead I use the tongue with which I was born and apply it to local languages, thus since the time this country became populated I am from Einsiedeln, a Swiss. Thus I wandered through various countries and was for a time a pilgrim, alone and foreign there. So, God, you have me growing in your arts under the blow of mighty wind and with pain inside me."
