tion, 22; must continually be proved afresh, 26; is a work of genius, 155
Gobineau, 77
Goethe, 43-53; quoted, 159, 165
Good and evil above right and wrong, 124
Gospel, amended by Faust, 52; glossed by Hegelians, 105
Happiness, not for the egotist, 14, 15; he despises it, 152; not abstract nor absolute, 110, 111; attainable, 118; its nature, 152, 153
Heathenism, use of the word, 144; contrast with paganism, 145, 146; its modern form, 147, 148
Hegel, 84-98
Human nature, 117, 118
Idealism, meanings of the word, 15, 16; fosters practical materialism, 5, 69-72, 78, 81, 82; should be imposed on the young, 80; its mystical issue, 38-40
Ideals, when captious, when solid, 137
Infinity, evaded by Hegel, 88, 89; recognised again by Schopenhauer, 108, 109
Kant, 54-64; 25, 34, 35, 42
Knowledge, assumed to be impossible, 15; abuse of the term, 39, 60
Leibniz, anticipates transcendentalism, 33; his insidious theology, 104
Lessing, on truth, 129
Locke, sets the ball rolling, 32
Luther, 135, 157
Max Stirner, 99-103; quoted, 73
Montaigne, quoted, 168
Music, 16, 161
Musset, 49
Mysticism, in knowledge, 38-40; in morals, 123
Nietzsche, 114-143
Optimism, egotistical, 25, 111, 114, 116, 118, 119
Passion, not naturally egotistical, 101; may become so, 95, 98; dull in egotists, 165, 166
Paulsen, 42
Perception, terminates in things not in ideas, 19
Pessimism, inherits disregard of intrinsic values, 109; reacts against optimism, 25, 111; is arbitrary, 116
Pier Gynt, typical egotist, 13, 14
Plato, his idealism contrasted with the German, 16; his oppressive politics, 81; on inspiration, 141
Postulates of practical reason, equivocal, 58-64
Power, divers meanings of the word, 125-127
Preservation, no law of nature, 115
Progress, when illusory, 17; when real, 112
Protestantism, 21-31, 151
Religion in German philosophy, 7, 13, 75, 76, 82, 83
Rome and German genius, 150
Schopenhauer, 108-122
Selfishness, distinguished from egotism, 95, 97, 100-102, 118
