[1] Thus, when the first gleam of _Mitleid_ stole into her heart, Brünhilde could no longer remain a Walküre; and Wotan's end comes, when by the same solvent he is at length set free from the delusion of the _principium individuationis._--(_Translator._) [2] There is here an allusion to the _πάνδημος Ἓρως_ and _Oὐρανία_ in Plato's _Symposium. V_. Chap. 8, sq. Edit. Schmelzer: Weidmann, Berlin, 1882.--(_Translator._) [3] _V_. Hesiod, _Opera et Dies_, 174-201.--(_Translator._) [4] Justice here denotes nothing else than that which is just, and this, rather in a negative than in a positive sense; so that what is not unjust is to be regarded as justice. [5] There is no more efficient instrument in ruling the masses than superstition. Without this they have no self-control; they are brutish; they are changeable; but once they are caught by some vain form of religion, they lend a more willing ear to its soothsayers than to their own leaders. [6] The Doctrine of Eight in detail may be found in _Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung_, vol. i., § 62. [7] Duty = _τὸ δέον_ = le devoir = Pflicht [cf. _plight_, O. H. G. _plegan_.]--(_Translator_.) [8] The word here translated "equity" (_Billigkeit_: Lat. _aequitas_) means the sense of fairness, or of natural justice which determines what is fitting and due in all human relations, as opposed to justice (_Gerechtigkeit_) taken as positive written law.--(_Translator._) [9] Motivation is defined in Part II., Chapter VIII., as "the law of Causality acting through the medium of the intellect." It is thus the law of the determination of conduct by motives.--(_Translator._) [10] However much we're won't to blame a lie, As index of a mind estranged from right, Yet times unnumber'd it hath shap'd results Of good most evident; disgrace and loss, It chang'd; e'en death it cheated. For with friends, Alas! not always in this mortal life, Where envy fills all hearts, and gloom prevails Much more than light, are we in converse join'd. --(_Translator._) [11] _Vide_, Schiller's _Don Carlos_: Act V., Sc. 3.--(_Translator._) [12] "_Magnanima menzogna, or quando è il vero_ _Si hello che si possa a te preporre?"_ Cf. also the Horatian _splendid mendax. Carm._ III., 11, 35.--(_Translator._) [13] 'Tis well to lie, an there result much good therefrom. _Vide, Opere_ di Tommaso Campanella, da Alessandro d'Ancona, Torino, 1854.--(_Translator._) [14] Man has received the gift of language, so as to be able to conceal his thoughts. CHAPTER VII. THE VIRTUE OF LOVING-KINDNESS.