plastic daemon of man’s [P. 272] downfall in triumphant surety; and German citizen of State, to boot, with a Mosaic confession; the darling of Liberal princes, and warrant of our national unity!” [1068W-{1-2/81} Know Thyself – 2nd Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PWVol. VI, p. 271-272]
[1069W-{1-2/81} Know Thyself – 2nd Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PWVol. VI, p. 272]
[P. 272] {FEUER} “Despite the enormous disadvantage at which the German race (ifso we still may call it) appears to stand against the Jewish, we yet have ventured to suggest the re-awakening of a German instinct as one factor in the present agitation. As, however, we have been obliged to discard all idea of its being a purely racial instinct, we perhaps might search for something higher: a bent that, merely vaguely (wahnvoll) felt by the Folk of to-day, would at first appear indeed as instinct, though really of far nobler origin and loftier aim, and which might haply be defined as the spirit of the purely-Human.” [1069W-{1-2/81} Know Thyself – 2nd Supplement to‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI, p. 272]
[1070W-{1-2/81} Know Thyself – 2nd Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI,p. 274]
[P. 274] “But only when the fiend, who keeps those ravers in the mania of their party-strife, no more can find a where or when to lurk among us, will there also be no longer any Jews. And the very stimulus of the present movement – conceivable among ourselves alone – might bring this great solution within reach of us Germans, rather than of any other nation, if only we would boldly take that ‘Know thyself’ and apply it to the inmost quick of our existence.” [1070W-{1-2/81} Know Thyself – 2ndSupplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI, p. 274]
[1071W-{2/10/81} CD Vol. II, p. 618-619]
[P. 618] {FEUER} (anti-FEUER/NIET} “Toward lunchtime he calls me andreads to me his new article, ‘Know Thyself.’ – Whether the Jews can ever be redeemed is the question which, in connection with it, occupies our thoughts – their nature condemns them to the world’s reality. They have profaned Christianity, that is to say, adapted it to this world, and [P. 619] from our art, which can only be a refuge from prevailing conditions, they also expect world conquest.” [1071W-{2/10/81} CD Vol. II, p. 618-619]
[1072W-{2/14/81} CD Vol. II, p. 622]
[P. 622] {FEUER} “Our conversation starts with the article and touches on all subjects, including Gobineau’s theory, to which R. links the remark that it is by no means impossible that humanity should cease to exist, but if one looks at things without regard to time and space, one knows that what really matters is
