SUMMARY: SYMMETRY - SYMBOL OF COMPREHENSION

In a „Conversation on Symmetry“, the Danish scientist Christian Oersted, according to Romantic „Naturphilosophie“, retransfers both, science and the human mind, into divine spirit by the idea of an all-embracing unification. He conceives a never ending self-evolvement of nature, in which symmetry plays the role of a guide, because it participates in all of its levels in an elementary as well as in a comprehensive sense: symmetry becomes the main stimulus of intellectual insight by affection of our sense of beauty, which in the developing mind must be promoted by education.