Cæsar Borgia, a superman, 138 Calvinism, in Kant, 57; in Fichte, 25, 77; in Hegel, 111 Categorical imperative, its origin, 56; its prerogatives, 62; its dangers, 63 Chancellor, the German, his chivalrous after-thought about Belgium, 50 Christianity, foreign to Germany, 11; undermined by German philosophy, 104, 105; patronised by Goethe, 46; abandoned by romantic individualists, 107; denounced by Nietzsche, 130-132; has one element in common with egotism, 106 Classicism, romantic in Goethe, 46; missed by Nietzsche, 139-142; when truly vital, 48 Conquest, a sublime duty, 80, 81 Contraries, alleged to be inseparable, 89, 90 Criticism, historical, has a transcendental basis, 29 _Critique of Pure Reason_, its agnosticism, 14; its sophistical foundation, 20 Durer, 27 Egotism, defined, 6; distinguished from selfishness, 95-97, 100-102, 118; based on error, 167; implicit in the Kantian imperative and postulates, 62-64; implies integrity, force, self-complacency, 163-166; is odious in pedants, 142 Emerson, 24, 49; quoted, 119 England, judged by Fichte, 76 Evil, justified, 123, 132-134 Faith, German conception of it, 13, 27; corroborated only by itself, 31, 68 Faust, typical egotist, 13, 14; prefigures the evolution of Germany, 50, 51, 157; improves on Saint John, 52 Fichte, 65-83 _Gemüth_, why self-conscious, 160 German ethics, its faults, 103 German language, its merits, 75 German nation, its purity, 75; its mission, 78, 79; in what sense the chosen people, 73, 74; necessary to the continued existence of God, 68; and of history, 79; its fortunes, 158-160 German philosophy, not all philosophy in Germany, 11; primitive, 27; subjective, 12; in what senses idealistic, 15; in what sense not so, 16; ambiguous, 17, 18; a revelation, 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