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p. 51. beati, etc. : happy in the heavenly kingdom,
they shall behold the tortures of the
damned, in order that their own happi-
ness may be more delightful to them.
p. 52. atenim,etc. :Yet there remain other spectacles,
that final and eternal day of judgment,
that day unlooked for by the nations,
that day scoffed at of men, when so great
a legacy of antiquity,and so many births,
shall be swallowed up in one fire. How
vast will be the spectacle on that day!
How I shall admire, how I shall laugh,
how I shall rejoice, how I shall exult,
when I behold so many kings and so
mighty groaning with Jove himself and
their own witnesses in nethermost dark-
ness! Ay, and the magistrates, the per-
secutors of the name of the Lord, often
in flames more fierce than the leaping
flames which their wrath kindled against
the Christians !
Moreover, what wise and famous philoso-
phers shall I see, glowing in the same
conflagration as their disciples, whom
they persuaded that God cared for
naught on earth, whom they taught that
souls either existed not or would not
return to their former bodies! And
poets, too, quaking before the judgment-
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seat, not of Rhadamanthus or of Minos,
but of an unexpected Christ! Then must
we hear the tragedians speak more loud-
ly, cry more piercingly, when the tragedy
is their own: then must we recognise the
comic actors, looser than ever when
loosened by fire: then must we behold
the charioteer all glowing in his chariot
of fire, then must we contemplate the
athletes displaying themselves not in the
gymnasium but in the flames, unlesseven
then I should rather not look at them, but
feast my insatiable eyes upon those that
have raged against the Lord.
"This," I should say to them "is your car-
penter's son, your harlot's son, your
Sabbath-breaker, your Samaritan, who
was possessed of demons. This is the
man whom you bought from Judas; this
is He whom you struck with reed and fist,
whom you contemptuously spat upon,
whom you made to drink gall and vine-
gar. This isHe whom his disciples secret-
ly stole, that He might be said to have
risen again; or whom—in your other
version—the gardener took away, lest
his own lettuces should be damaged by
the crowd of visitors. "
What praetor or consul or pagan priest in his
munificence will give thee the chance of
gazingonsuchasight. ofexultinginsuch
j oys? And yet even now (at the present
hour)we in ameasure have them byfaith
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in the picturing of our imagination. But
what are thethings that eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard and which havenot so much
as dimly dawned upon the human heart?
Whatever they are, they are more delightful,
I think, than circus and both theatres and
every race course.
[For an interesting if unsympathetic criticism
of this passage—the superb cadence of
which is impossible to render in English
—seeGibborisDeclineandFall,chap. xv. ~\
p. 61. tabula rasa: a clean slate.
p. 62. vis inertia; deadweight.
p. 71. si plus: if they have cut more or less, let it
cause no prejudice.
p. 72. defaire, etc. : in doing harm for the pleasure
of doing it.
P- 73- sympathiamalevolens: malevolent sympathy.
p. 74. les nostalgies de la croix: home-sickness for
the Cross.
tour deforce; see on XII. , p. 141.
p. 81. Elend: misery (originally " exile").
p. 82. va victis: woe to the vanquished!
p. 83. compositio: compounding (for crimes).
p. 84. causa fiendi: immediate cause (lit. cause of
happening).
p. 89. toto calo: altogether.
p. 90. progressus: progress.
p. 91. misarchism: hatred of ruling.
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p. 93. per analogiam: by analogy.
p. 95. instrumentum: instrument.
morsus conscientice: sting of conscience.
gaudium: joy.
p. 109. causa prima: primary cause.
p. 121. morbidezza; morbidity.
novissima glories cupido: latest desire for
glory.
p. 129. in majorem musicce gloriam: to the greater
glory of music.
p. 131. une promesse de bonheur: a promise of hap-
piness.
le dhinteressement: disinterestedness.
p. 134. instrumentum diaboli: devil's instrument.
remedium: remedy.
p. 135. la betephilosophe: the philosophic beast.
optimum: best.
p. 136. pereat mundus, etc. : let the world perish, but
philosophy be made, let the philosopher
be made, let me be made!
p. 143. nitimur in vetitum: weBtrive towards the for-
bidden.
p. 144. je combats, etc. : I fight against a universal
spider's web.
p. 145. jus primes noctis: right of the first night. In
some cases (especially in France) the
feudal lord is said to have had a claim
upon his vassal's bride on the first
night of the latter's marriage. This
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right is, however, probably legendary,
or at any rate it was never exercised.
vetitum: forbidden thing.
p. 151. crux, nux, lux: Cross, night, light.
p. 153. exhypothesi: fundamentally.
p. 158. homines bona voluntatis: men of good will.
p. 167. entre nous: between ourselves.
p. 169. prima facie: on the face of it.
p. 170. il faut s'abitir: we must make ourselves
stupid.
p. 171. hesychasts: quietists.
p. 173. unto mystica; see XIII. , p. 28.
p. 174. incuria sui: carelessness of oneself.
p. 176. ccenacula: clubs.
despectus sui: self-contempt.
p. 180. causa fortior: stronger cause.
p. 186. evviva la morte! long live Death!
quceritur: the question is asked.
p. 187. magno, etc. : next but at a great interval.
From Virgil.
in artibus et litteris: arts and letters.
p. 190. non plus ultra: unsurpassable.
p. 191. despectio sui: looking down on oneself.
p. 195. par excellence; see on VIII. , p. 14.
secretum: secret.
Minotauros: a mythical monster, half man,
half bull.
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p. 196. factum brutum: raw fact.
petit fait; little event.
ce petit faitalisme: untranslateable; the
normal form would be ce petit fatal-
isme," this little fatalism," but Nietzsche
substitutes faitalisme, from fait, "fact. "
p. 202. rtiabitude, etc. : the custom of admiring the
unintelligible instead of simply remain-
ing in the unknown.
p. 203. elegantia syllogismi: elegance of syllogism.
p. 204. species anarchistica: the anarchistic species.
X«. afjJ bhovTuv. gap in the teeth.
p. 206. paralysis agitans: agitating paralysis.
stimulantia: stimulants.
la religion de la souffrance: the religion of
suffering.
p. 209. patere legem quern ipse tulisti: suffer the law
which you yourself have passed.
p. 210. faute de mieux: for want of a better.
p. 217. piafraus; see on VII. , p. 143.
p. 218. laisser-aller; see on III. , p. 55.
XIV. The Will to Power, Vol. i.
p. 63. prestissimo: very quick (musical term).
p. 68. tout comprendre, etc. : to understand all is to
forgive all.
p. 69. un monstreetun chaos: amonsterandachaos.
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p. 73. un monstre, etc. : a cheerful brute is better
than a tedious sentimentalist.
p. 76. ruere in servitium: to rush into slavery.
From Tacitus.
p. 77. nouveau riche: newly rich.
p. 81. propre, exact et libre: appropriate, clear-cut
and free.
p. 83. umanità: humanity.
honnetes gens: respectable folk.
la bonne compagnie: good society.
vetitum: forbidden thing.
le seigneur de Ferney: the lord of Ferney, i. e.
Voltaire. The "citizen of Geneva" is
Rousseau.
p. 84. un bel esprit: a wit.
pour la, etc. : for the rabble, a rewarding and
avenging God.
F/wnnetete': respectability.
hommes de lettres: men of letters.
Pinsouciance: nonchalance.
p. 85. vide: see.
p. 86. à la Rousseau: in Rousseau's manner.
p. 87. Campagna romana: the Roman Campagna,
i. e. the country round Rome.
il fallait, etc. : Romulus must have been
drunk when he thought of building a
city on so ugly a site.
parce que, etc. : because no nation has bor-
rowed less fromantiquity. becauseSpain
has undergone no classical influence.
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p. 88. Combien, etc. : How many leagues would I
not travel on foot and how many days
in prison would I not endure for the sake
of hearing"Don Juan,or the Secret Mar-
riage"? And I know nothing else for
which I should make so great an effort.
p. 89. le te"ne"breux: the mysterious one.
p. 90. Credo quia absurdus est: I believe him be-
cause he is absurd.
p. 96. reine Thor: pure fool.
p. 97. niaiserie: stupidity.
p. 98. haute volte: upper ten (lit. high flight).
p. 100. laisser-aller; see on III. , p. 55.
p. 103. demonstratio ad absurdum: proof by reduc-
tion to absurdity.
marasmus femininus: feminine decadence.
p. 199. sub specie boni: under the form of the good.
p. 206. infimarum, etc. ; see on VIII. , p. 154.
p. 229. inter pares: among equals.
p. 231. juste milieu: the just mean.
p. 238. arriere-pense'e; see on VII. , p. 270.
causa prima: first cause.
p. 249. pur, etc. : pure, unmixed, crude, fresh, in all
its vigour, in all its bitterness.
p. 250. esse; see on V. , p. 94.
operari; see on VI. , p. 60.
sub specie boni; see above, on p. 199.
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p. 258. vetitum: forbidden thing.
p. 260. deus myops: a short-sighted God.
p. 263. cum grano salis : with a pinch of salt.
p. 264. desiderata : things to be desired.
P. 266. sensorium: sense-system.
inventarium: inventory.
p. 282. primum mobile: first motive.
p. 301. inter pares: among equals.
p. 308. in rebus moralibus : in matters of morals.
p. 312. homo natura: man as nature.
p. 313. factum brutum: a raw fact.
p. 328. contradictio in adjecto; see on XII. , p. 23.
p. 342. Pensées: Thoughts.
p. 343. déniaiser la vertu: to make virtue less stupid.
p. 344. yvã do CE AUTÓv (gnothi seauton): know thy-
self. The motto inscribed in letters of
gold on the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
p. 345. sophist; see on I. , p. 102,
polis; see on VI. , P.