[Footnote 31: Quotation from Wessel's famous comedy of "Love without Stockings," III, 3.] [Footnote 32: Viz besides the eggs she duly furnishes; Holberg, "The Busy-body," II, 1.] [Footnote 33: This figure is said by Diogenes Lærtios II, 37 to have been used by Socrates himself about his relation to Xanthippe.] [Footnote 34: The following sentences are not as clear in meaning as is otherwise the case in Kierkegaard.] [Footnote 35: Poetics, chap. 15.] [Footnote 36: _Cf._ "The Banquet"] [Footnote 37: They are, that he had been created a man and not an animal, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a Barbarian (Lactantius, Instit. III, 19, 17).] [Footnote 38: Thales of Miletos (Diogenes Lærtios I, 33).] [Footnote 39: German poet of the Romantic School (1773-1853).] [Footnote 40: Reasoning against the rules of logic.] [Footnote 41: "The Lying-in Room," II, 2.] [Footnote 42: A quotation from Oehlenschläager's "Aladdin."] [Footnote 43: Scattered members.] [Footnote 44: See Diogenes Lærtios, VI, 37.] [Footnote 45: By the immortal gods.] [Footnote 46: I adjure you by the gods.] [Footnote 47: Therefore those tears.] [Footnote 48: I concede.] [Footnote 49: It can hardly be seen, it is but for lips which understand each other exactly.] [Footnote 50: Christiansfeld, a town in South Jutland, was the seat of a colony of Herrhutian Pietists.] [Footnote 51: The reference is to the "Diary of the Seducer" (in "Either-Or," part I). Edward is the scorned lover of Cordelia who is seduced by John.] [Footnote 52: I concede. I have conceded.] [Footnote 53: Reference to a comedy by Farquhar, which enjoyed a moderate popularity in Copenhagen.] [Footnote 54: i.e., evidently, she docs not exist because of herself; hence she is in a "negative" relation to herself. The center of this relation is "what attracts all the world."] [Footnote 55: In Oehlenschläger's "Aladdin."] [Footnote 56: In the Danish, a pun on the homonyms _en brud_ and _et brud._] [Footnote 57: Job 2, 10.] [Footnote 58: According to the Jutland Laws (A. D. 1241) a man is permitted to punish his wife, when she has misbehaved, with stick and with rod, but not with weapon. In the Danish Law (1683) this right is restricted to children and servants. S. V.] [Footnote 59: Containing the second part of "Stages on Life's Road," entitled "Reflections on Marriage in Refutation of Objections."] FEAR AND TREMBLING INTRODUCTION II