^{page 431 Note 1} Andler, Charles, in Nietzsche, sa vie et sa pensee, 6 vols., Paris, 1920–1931;Google Scholar and Muckle, Friedrich, in Nietzsche und der Zusammenbruch der Kultur, Vol. I, pp. 137 ff., Munich, 1920.Google Scholar

^{page 431 Note 2} Aphorism 68.

^{page 436 Note 1} This Nietzsche always says of Epicureanism that it is a view of life which makes men more sensitive and more intelligent.

^{page 436 Note 2} This seems as if it must have reference to the period of suffering through which Nietzsche himself had now passed.

^{page 437 Note 1} Usener, , Epicurea, Fragment 219.Google Scholar

^{page 437 Note 2} Hicks, R. D., Stoic and Epicurean, p. 153. (London, 1911.)Google Scholar

^{page 438 Note 1} I.e., those who do not take a materialist view of the world, who seek for another reality behind phenomena.

^{page 438 Note 2} Epicurea, paragraphs 79, 80.

^{page 438 Note 3} Here in the case of both philosophers we have to do with a form of pluralism, which proceeds from the scientific positivist thought of epochs akin to one another. See Muckle, , op. cit., pp. 137 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 439 Note 1} It seems to me scarcely necessary to bring forward any evidence that Nietzsche was above all a moral philosopher, that he valued and cultivated Ethics above all other parts of philosophy, and that the non-ethical portions of his work are the least valuable.

^{page 439 Note 2} Cf., e.g., Nietzsche, , Philologica, p. 329 f.Google Scholar

^{page 439 Note 3} Epicurea, pp. 59 ff.

^{page 440 Note 1} And also passages like the Midnight-song in Zarathustra.

^{page 440 Note 2} Except in Nietzsche’s middle works.

^{page 440 Note 3} Op. cit., p. 173.

^{page 440 Note 4} By this it is not meant or suggested that Zarathustra’s style was influenced by the style of the Epicurean letter.

^{page 440 Note 5} The not uncommon school-forming power of ethical pathos.

^{page 440 Note 6} Epicurea, p. 75, sect. 3.

^{page 441 Note 1} Epicurea, p. 78, sect. 8.

^{page 441 Note 2} Ibid., p. 72.

^{page 441 Note 3} Ibid., p. 77, sect. 11.

^{page 442 Note 1} De Rerum Natura, I, 146 seq.

^{page 442 Note 2} Except at the time while he was undergoing a reaction against Wagner.

^{page 443 Note 1} Namely, in the deviation of the atoms from the straight line: compare passages such as Lucretius, II, 216 seq.

^{page 444 Note 1} Epicurea, paragraphs 76, 77.