[1] The Academy has been good enough to insert the second "is" on its own account, by way of proving the truth of Longinus' theory (_V. De Sublimitate_: chap. 39, _ad fin._), that the addition or subtraction of a single syllable is sufficient to destroy the whole force of a sentence. (P. Longinus: _De Sublimitate Libellus_; edit. Joannes Vablen, Bonnae, 1887.)--(_Translator_) [2] I suppose this is the meaning of _contra esse confiteri_.--(_Translator_.) End of Project Gutenberg's The Basis of Morality, by Arthur Schopenhauer