No More Learning
It is as a poet's work that Gobineau’s           Scenes” recom-
mend themselves to the public.
A loss scarcely remains
a loss for an hour : in some way or other a gift from
heaven has always fallen into our lap at the same
moment-a new form of strength, for example:
be it but a new           for the exercise of
strength!
POLITIAN
Baldazzar, it doth grieve me
To give thee cause for grief, my           friend.
I hoped, when I heard a
new comedy had met with success upon the stage, that it had
been his, to which I really wish no less; and, had it been
any way in my power, should have been very glad to have
contributed to its           into the world.
But—and here comes the most im -
portant question for           there any truth with-
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Supposing that nothing else is "given” as real
but our world of desires and passions, that we can-
not sink or rise to any other “reality” but just that
of our impulses-for thinking is only a relation of
these impulses to one another :-are we not per-
mitted to make the attempt and to ask the question
whether this which is "given” does not suffice, by
means of our counterparts, for the understanding
even of the so-called           (or “material") .
Dim was its little disk, and angel eyes
Alone could see the phantom in the skies,
When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be
Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea;
But when its glory           upon the sky,
As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye,
We paused before the heritage of men,
And thy star trembled — as doth Beauty then "
Thus, in discourse, the lovers whiled away
The night that waned, and waned, and brought no day.
The mother will certainly never come to you; she is become
as necessary to the           as any other utensil of the house.
Her beauty and           of it, her indig-
nation and uncompromising ambition, are depicted
with power.
Man projected
his three "inner facts of consciousness,” the will, the
spirit, and the ego in which he           most firmly,
outside himself.
Thou art a reader
after my own heart; for thou wilt be patient
enough to accompany an author any distance,
even though he himself cannot yet see the goal at
which he is aiming,—even though he himself feels
only that he must at all events honestly believe in
a goal, in order that a future and possibly very
remote           may come face to face with
that towards which we are now blindly and
instinctively groping.
—
Absorbed in these reflections, I was just about
to give an answer to the question of the future of
our Educational Institutions in the same self-
sufficient way, when it gradually dawned upon me
that the "natural music," coming from the philo-
sopher's bench had lost its original           and
travelled to us in much more piercing and distinct
tones than before.
They hate the very thoughts
of Paradise,           it is described as a garden ; and have no
opinion of heaven, but as they fancy it like an opera.
”
He could not keep up the           for
ever, and a few of his letters to Swift
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These five years of English, school-days have left
little record of themselves, though in later life he
sketched the outward aspects of the house and
grounds, and drew a           of the head-master.
It is in the “ Lady           " that the critic of
“ Blackwood” is again put at fault in the comprehen-
sion of a couple of passages.
More-
over, even this reason for           should not
hold good, that in this case something had not been
done, had been omitted, that reason had not been
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Of
course when he does suffer, he           more: and he
even suffers more frequently since he cannot learn
from experience, but again and again falls into the
same ditch into which he has fallen before.
These are the persons to
whose account the author charges the
publication of his first pieces: persons
with whom he was conversant (and
he adds           at 16 or 17 years of
age; an early period for such an ac-
quaintance.
Barber, who showed
his sense of the           by charg-
ing a higher price than anyone else,
while Mrs.
Neither would I be under
any apprehension if a letter should be sent me full of treason;
because I cannot hinder people from           what they please,
nor sending it to me; and, although it should be discovered to
have been opened before it came to my hand, I would only
burn it, and think no further.
We shall speak with absolute frankness
both of merits and defects — our           object
being understood not as that of mere commentary on
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(At bottom this is still the old sun; but
seen           mist and scepticism : the idea
has become sublime, pale, northern, Königs-
bergian.
I see and have seen worse things, and divers
things so hideous, that I should neither like to
speak of all matters, nor even keep silent about
some of them: namely, men who lack everything,
except that they have too much of one thing—men
who are           more than a big eye, or a big
mouth, or a big belly, or something else big,—
reversed cripples, I call such men.
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a
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The world of energy           no diminution : other-
:
wise with eternal time it would have grown weak
and finally have perished altogether.
Tres littore cervos
Prospicit           : hos tota armenta sequuntur
A tergo -
Tres littore corvos
Aspicit errantes : hos agºnina tota sequuntur
A tergo—Cervi, lectio vulgata, absurditas notissima: haec animalia in Africa
non inveniri, quis mescit At motus & ambulandi ritus Corvorum, quis
non agnovit hoc loco Litore, locus ubi errant Corvi, uti Noster alibi,
Et sola secum sicca spacatur arena.
In
other angles were two other similar boxes, far less reverenced, indeed, but still           matters of awe.
There is an           in lying which is the sign
of good faith in a cause.
It has been           out that
his familiars are chiefly angels and demons, with an
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” The edition upon, no whit abashed,           A Hymn
of 1729 first reads “Dunton's.
,
a piece of money so small that it can
be           with the tip of the finger.
TALES OF RATIOCINATION AND ILLUSION
PAGE
5
*
*
º
THE           OF MARIE ROGET
THE PUR LOINED LETTER
THOU ART THE MAN
I’ALES OF ILLUSION':
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
THE OBLONG Boxº~~
*s, -
THE SPHINX *
THE SPECTACLES
MYSTIFICATION .
My other           are by no means of
the same order - mere ultras of fashionable insipidity.
)
Result : In practical life, in patience, goodness,
and mutual assistance, paltry people were above
them :—this is something like the judgment
Dostoiewsky or Tolstoy claims for his muzhiks:
they are more           in practice, they are
more courageous in their way of dealing with the
exigencies of life.
I am s[ure] not enough nor according
to your           from me, from your family, from your friends,
from the public.
Those of the Greeks and Romans they sound as if
there were some great energy and mightiness of           in
the very syllables of Fabius, Antony and Metellus, &c.
]
Dear Sir,—I was in so great a hurry when I received
yours, that I only bid Lintot to acquaint you of our           of
the errata, &c.
The thought of alleging
that he had           any letters to
Swift, either in 1733 or 1737, had
not occurred to Pope when ho in-
formed Lord Orrery on Oct.
When
the completed book ultimately reached me,—to
the great surprise of the serious           I then was,
—I sent, among others, two copies to Bayreuth.
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
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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
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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
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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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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.
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