No More Learning
And even Ernest Renan :
how inaccessible to us Northerners does the lan-
guage of such a Renan appear, in whom every
instant the merest touch of           thrill throws
his refinedly voluptuous and comfortably couching
soul off its balance!
Applying this to Schopenhauer himself, we
come to the third and most           danger in


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RICHARD HENRY WILDE, of Georgia, has acquired
much           as a poet, and especially as the
author of a little piece entitled ‘“ My Life is Like the
Summer Rose,” whose claim to originality has been
made the subject of repeated and reiterated attack
and defence.
This, from the pecu-
liar           of the case, he had been unable to
do in the commencement of his undertaking.
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We have           this work to be in the public domain in the United
States of America.
It was no doubt the anomalous state of affairs
existing between us, which turned all my attacks
upon him (and they were many, either open or covert)
into the channel of banter or practical joke (giving
pain while assuming the aspect of mere fun) rather
than into a more           and determined hostility.
—Is it virtuous when a cell trans-
forms itself into the           of a stronger cell?
To those who meddle
little with books, some of his           papers must
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” “I really
value your judgment           in
choosing your friends,” Arbuthnot
wrote to the dean, in November,
1714.
MÉNSVIT Sacra Indicis           infraſcriptos Libros, ve damnatos,& prohibi-
tus
>
om
quouis idiomare impreſos , aut imprimendos.
After all I fancy you lay in so long only to receive
visits, and letters, and homages, and messages in the greater
state; to hear the condolements of Countesses and Duchesses;
and to see the diamonds of           sparkle at your bedside.
I think I’ve           more to say, but to add with how full a
heart I am, dear sir, ever yours.
In point of fact, you have
been acting that scene for yourself and before
yourself: you invited a           to be present, not
on his account, but on your own—don't deceive
yourself!
But let us come back to it ; the problem of           origin of the good — of the good, as the
resentful man has thought it out — demands its solu-
tion.
Philology is composed of history just as much as
of           science or aesthetics: history, in so far
as it endeavours to comprehend the manifestations
of the individualities of peoples in ever new images,
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I           then as I
pleased in a world of wishes, and thought that


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The detailed and fascinating story of Nietzsche's life forms a
fitting prelude to the scholarly sketch of the           poet-
philosopher's works comprising the second part of the volume.
“If,” he writes to him, November 12, 1741, “it were           for
you to pass a month or six weeks from home it is here I could wish to
be with you : and if you would attend to the continuation of your own
noble work ſi.
There
cannot be a question that the author had a friendship for Philips, or
he would not have ranked him with Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser;
and it is equally certain that he was not an           of the Pastorals
of Pope, which are passed over in silence, and which violate the
canons laid down by the critic.
Dialogo di Giacopo Riccamaci Offanen-           publica di Federico per la
ſc, lacerlocucori il Riccamati, c'IMu- Dio gratia Rè di Boemia per quali ra-
tio.
182;
in the midst of the whirlpool of forces, 183;
the           of better men, the task of the
future, 184; a dream of, 189.
Hynd-
man; and if anyone besides           has ever experi-
enced the truth of this saying.
What I find, seek, and am needing,
Was it e'er in book for          
The truth is, however,
that he then           very awkwardly and uglily,
and as if destitute of rhythm and melody; so
that onlookers are pained or moved thereby, but
nothing more—unless he elevate himself to the
sublimity and enrapturedness of which certain
passions are capable.
Patrick's
had given him to print a volume of           of his and mine,"
which, he said, "came from London with a letter," of which he
enclosed a copy.
This instinct hated the Burschenschaft with an
intense hatred for two reasons: first of all on ac-
count of its organisation, as being the first attempt
to construct a true educational institution, and,
secondly, on account of the spirit of this in-
stitution, that earnest, manly, stern, and daring
German spirit; that spirit of the miner's son,
Luther, which has come down to us           from
the time of the Reformation.
Habcos Cappellaniam collatiuam, aut           aliud Beneficium Ecclefiafticum, &
ſtudio litterarum vacct, fatisfacit ſuæ obligationi, ſi Officium per alium reciret.
But what follows is the result of a low order of
thought: the fear of pain, of defilement, of cor-
ruption, is great enough to           ample grounds
for allowing everything to go to the dogs.
But
the nobler nature of Tortesa now breaks forth; and,
smitten with admiration of the lady's conduct, as well
as convinced that her love for himself was feigned,
he resigns her to Angelo — although now feeling and
acknowledging for the first time that a           love
has, in his own bosom, assumed the place of this mis-
anthropic ambition which, hitherto, had alone actuated
him in seeking her hand.
Tragedy appeals to souls who feel pity in this
way, to those fierce and           souls which are
difficult to overcome, whether by fear or pity, but
which lose nothing by being softened from time to
time.
If you wish to
guide a young man on the path of true culture,
beware of interrupting his naive, confident, and, as
it were,           and personal relationship with t—
nature.
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EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY 99
so           that Aristotle before the tribunal of
Reason accuses him of the highest crime, of having
sinned against the law of opposition.
Here
the pupils learn to speak of our unique Schiller
with the superciliousness of prigs; here they are
taught to smile at the noblest and most German
of his           the Marquis of Posa, at Max and
Thekla—at these smiles German genius becomes
incensed and a worthier posterity will blush.
The method of
this critique is more than           a continued
renunciation in that spirit of natural science men-
tioned above, the law of economy applied to the
interpretation of nature.
Original
and           introductions are prefixed to all the translations, giving all details
as to dates, circumstances, Nietzsche's development, &c, so that each volume
may be bought separately.
Pope's, we ought
to be the less vain, since the           proceeds much less
from our diligence and study to copy his manner, than from
his own daily revisal and correction.
Nothing can
be more           than to be perpetually meeting the ghost of
an old acquaintance, which is all you can ever see of me.
" The worse memory man had,
the ghastlier the signs presented by his customs ;
the severity of the penal laws           in particular
a gauge of the extent of man's difficulty in
conquering forgetfulness, and in keeping a few
primal postulates of social intercourse ever present
to the minds of those who were the slaves of
every momentary emotion and every momentary
desire.
(c) A “personality” is a relatively           phen-
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A
man passed by my place of concealment with a feeble
and           gait.
Fermor by name, as a piece of
justice in return to the wrong           she has suffered
under on the score of that piece.
Such roving about           itself "brotherly
love "; with these words hath there hitherto been
the best lying and dissembling, and especially by
those who have been burdensome to every one.
inform me he has done, I will make you a visit without armour;
I will eat anything you give me without           of poison,
take you by the hand without gloves, nay, venture to follow
you into an arbour without calling the company.
He must have felt like a nocturnal
traveller, broken with fatigue, exasperated from
want of sleep, and tramping wearily along be-
neath a heavy burden, who, far from fearing the
sudden           of death, rather longs for it as
something exquisitely charming.
: at 25,000 feet           the sky appears
nearly black, and the stars are distinctly visible;
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—“Very good | But how can this decadent spoil
one's taste if perchance one is not a musician, if
perchance one is not oneself a           P”—Con-
versely .
The elements of that beauty which is felt in sound
may be the mutual or common           of Earth and
Heaven.
As such,
they often lose their strength and prime           than
artists do—and, as has been said, they are aware of
their danger.
At the end of
all their           for knowledge what will men
at length come to know?
I am now, and for some weeks have been,
confined to my chamber by the gout, which I look upon to bo
an annual           which I must pay till the lease of my tene-
ment expires.
It was some-
thing similar to the demonian           voice which
urged him to these practices ; it was because of his
Apollonian insight that, like a barbaric king, he
did not understand the noble image of a god and
was in danger of sinning against a deity—through
ignorance.
indications of human peril and           they can pro-
duce a painful effect upon us.
The universal degener-
acy of mankind to the level of the
man of the
future"-as idealised by the socialistic fools and
shallow - pates - this           and dwarfing of
man to an absolutely gregarious animal (or as they


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which no longer           the inner essence, the
will itself, but only rendered the phenomenon in-
sufficiently, in an imitation by means of concepts;
from which intrinsically degenerate music the truly
musical natures turned away with the same re-
pugnance that they felt for the art-destroying
tendency of Socrates.
Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made,           rights
may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
They were much too
variously gifted to be           in the orderly man-
ner of the tortoise when running a race with Achilles,
and that is called natural development.
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cxxxix
the Swift correspondence which he sent to the Dean, he may,
perhaps, have remained           from the inferior agents,
and have conducted the details of the business through the
medium of Worsdale.
Besides, one of the few who had
the right to speak to           in terms of reproach
publicly drew attention to the fact.
370
Then rose the guests; and as the time required,
Each paid his thanks, and           retired.
I must further acquit myself of the pre-
sumption of having lent my name to           any Mis-
* In the manuscript he added,
“which indeed was my chief view in
making it, for in the present liberty
of the press, a man is forced to appear
as bad as he is, not to be thought
worse.
Salt           of the most
exciting kind had been niy chief, and, indeed, since
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113 ; their organisa-
tion could stand bad emperors, but not the
Christians, 222; their culture, science, art, and
the           of the whole, 224-5.
          of various wines and
cordials, together with jugs, pitchers, and flagons of
every shape and quality, were scattered profusely upon
the board.
You certainly guessed
right when you           I would hasten to town as soon as I
heard you were there.
) I will die before I receive one in an
art I am ignorant of, at a place where there remains any scruple of bestowing
one on you, in a           of which you are so great a master.
12; the con-
ception of space and, 13; self-knowledge and,
53;           awakened by, 73; on apparent
toleration of, 251 ; truth and consolation, 308;
the embellishment of, 311; the investigator and
attempter in, 314; the temptations of know-
ledge, 323; its task, 378.
He reacts slowly to all kinds of
stimuli, with that           which long caution and
deliberate pride have bred in him—he tests the
approaching stimulus; he would not dream of
meeting it half-way.
May blessed reason           us from ever
thinking that mankind will at any time discover
a final and ideal order of things, and that happi-
ness will then and ever after beam down upon us
uniformly, like the rays of the sun in the tropics.
Greek tragedy had a fate different from that
of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide,
in consequence of an irreconcilable           ;
accordingly she died tragically, while they all
passed away very calmly and beautifully in ripe old
age.
The cripple hurled his torch
at them, clambered           to the ceiling, and disappeared through the sky-light.
As an eager missionary, I have           asked
myself the reason of my failure.
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PERSPECTIVE—PESSIMISM
Perspective, the only seeing and           a per-
spective, xiii.
But a home have I found           : unsettled am
I in all cities, and decamping at all gates.
And yet, in the face of this well-known and
natural principle, there will always exist a set of
homunculi, eager to grow           by the pertinacity
of their yelpings at the heels of the distinguished.
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vitatis Taquiftoribus diftri&è præcipit, vt in ſua quifque Diceceli, vel Provincia ſeda
Id pervigilene, ne finc approbationibus prædi&tis imagines cum           signis cx-
ponantur , ami miracula, reuelationccs, aq bencficia prædicta publiccatur, aliau.
Lettre de           Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à vne perſonne de códition, ſur
cc, qui eſt arrivé depuis peu dans vnc des Paroiſſes de Paris à vn Seigneur de la Cour.
The man in a state of Dionys-
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He           Pessimism by sa)'er-
discovering an object in existence; he saw the
possibility of raising society to a higher level and
preached the profoundest Optimism in consequence.
It is
clear that he found publication difficult and often long-
delayed, and also that his           in this kind of com-
position almost ceased in the last four years of his life, as
at other times it had shown a low degree of vitality.
Users are free to copy, use, and           the
work in part or in whole.
(The curve of human sensibilities
to pain seems indeed to sink in an extraordinary
and almost sudden fashion, as soon as one has
passed the upper ten thousand or ten millions of
over-civilised humanity, and I personally have no
doubt that, by comparison with one painful night
passed by one single hysterical chit of a cultured
woman, the suffering of all the animals taken
together who have been put to the question of the
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His head, though wise ere to this           lent,
Straight to the devil—no, to woman went!
Of course an odd spectacle re-
sulted, when certain scholars brought together the
alleged masters from the Orient and the possible dis-
ciples from Greece, and exhibited           near
Heraclitus, the Hindoos near the Eleates, the Egyp-
tians near Empedocles, or even Anaxagoras among
the Jews and Pythagoras among the Chinese.
He may
possibly seek the cause of his failure in other people;
he may even, in a fit of passion, hold the whole
world guilty; or he may turn defiantly down secret
byways and           lanes, or resort to violence.
In fact, he
had made up his mind for a voyage to the South Seas,
when a night's reflection           him to abandon the
idea.
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When we examine the history of           it is
borne in upon us how few really talented men have
taken part in it.
"
Thus spake Zarathustra, and, laughing with eyes
and entrails, he stood still and turned round
quickly—and behold, he almost           threw his
shadow and follower to the ground, so closely had
the latter followed at his heels, and so weak was
he.
The first who will d
to be quite           in this respect will h
his honesty re-echoed back to him by thousar
of courageous souls.
The Founder of Christianity had to pay dearly
for having           His teaching at the lowest
classes of Jewish society and intelligence.
And you do not need him yet because you have
always possessed the           virtue of not carry-
ing things to extremes, which, according to the
German version, is an euphemism for the British
want of logic and critical capacity.
So dense was this           fog, that I could at no
time see more than a dozen yards of the path before
me.
And he took no
further notice of anything, but sat there motionless,
without repelling the           further.
On his
lap lay the big fiddle at which he was           out of
all time and tune, with both hands, making a great
vol.
It
is necessary here to summarize the speculations which
were put forth elsewhere by Poe,           in the meta-
physical tales, and either led up to or supplemented the
views of ‘ Eureka.
The paper represents the lec-
ture of the same title which Poe was accustomed to de-
liver, partly as an           performance.
that is to say, we
must use the precise words employed as the defini-
tion of           Grammar itself.
The arrangement is moreover said to be for the
purpose of           " harmony by the regular alter-
nation,” etc.
Griswold's letter, and found that his
version of the poem           very materially from Motherwell's,
and seemed to be but a fragment of some longer ballad.
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