1. Cf. the tenth Pythian
ode. See also the fourth book of Herodotus. The Hyperboreans were a mythical
people beyond the Rhipaean mountains, in the far North. They enjoyed unbroken
happiness and perpetual youth.
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2. The lowest of the Hindu
castes.
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3. That is, in Pandora's
box.
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4. John iv, 22.
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5. David Friedrich Strauss
(1808-74), author of "Das Leben Jesu" (1835-6), a very famous work in its
day. Nietzsche here refers to it.
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6. The word Semiotik
is
in the text, but it is probable that Semantik is what Nietzsche
had in mind.
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7. One of the six great
systems of Hindu philosophy.
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8. The reputed founder
of Taoism.
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9. Nietzsche's name for
one accepting his own philosophy.
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10. That is, the strict
letter of the law--the chief target of Jesus's early preaching.
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11. A reference to the
"pure ignorance" (reine Thorheit) of Parsifal.
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12. Matthew v, 34.
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13. Amphytrion was the
son of Alcaeus, King of Tiryns. His wife was Alcmene. During his absence
she was visited by Zeus, and bore Heracles.
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14. So in the text. One
of Nietzsche's numerous coinages, obviously suggested by
Evangelium,
the
German for gospel.
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15. To which, without
mentioning it, Nietzsche adds verse 48.
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16. A paraphrase of Demetrius'
"Well roar'd, Lion!" in act v, scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
The lion, of course, is the familiar Christian symbol for Mark.
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17. Nietzsche also quotes
part of verse 2.
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18. The quotation also
includes verse 47.
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19. And 17.
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20. Verses 20, 21, 26,
27, 28, 29.
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21. A paraphrase of Schiller's
"Against stupidity even gods struggle in vain."
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22. The word training
is in English in the text.
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23. I Corinthians i,
27, 28.
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24. That is, to say,
scepticism. Among the Greeks scepticism was also occasionally called ephecticism.
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25. A reference to the
University of Tubingen and its famous school of Biblical criticism. The
leader of this school was F. C. Baur, and one of the men greatly influenced
by it was Nietzsche's pet abomination, David F. Strauss, himself a Suabian.
Vide § 10 and § 28.
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26. The quotations are
from "Also sprach Zarathustra" ii, 24: "Of Priests."
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27. The aphorism, which
is headed "The Enemies of Truth," makes the direct statement: "Convictions
are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
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28. A reference, of course,
to Kant's "Kritik der praktischen Vernunft" (Critique of Practical Reason).
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29. I Corinthians vii,
2, 9.
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30. Few men are noble.
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