21 The German copyright expires thirty years after publication.-TR.

22 Nietzsche himself was extremely short-sighted.-TR.

23 In the sixth century B.C. Pythagoras founded at Croton a "school"

somewhat resembling a monastic order. Among the ordeals for novitiates was enforced silence for five years.-TR.

24 In the German _Aufklarung_ there is a play on the sense "clearing up" (of weather) and "enlightenment."-TR.

25 Stendhal.-TR.

26 A transposition of _sacrifizio dell' intelletto_, the Jesuit maxim.-TR.

27 The original, by a curious slip, has "seventh."-TR.

28 Clearly autobiographical. Nietzsche, like all great men, pa.s.sed through a period of modesty and doubt.-TR.

29 Nietzsche here alludes to his own countrymen.-TR.

30 An allusion to the poem "Der Wilde" (The Savage) by Saume, which ends with the line, "Sehet, wir wilden sind doch bessere Menschen"

(Behold, after all, we savages are better men).-TR.

31 Diogenes, founder of the Cynic school, which derived its name from ???? (dog).-TR.