Preface to the
Third Edition.
What is true and
genuine would more easily gain room in the world if it were not that
those who are incapable of producing it are also sworn to prevent it
from succeeding. This fact has already hindered and retarded, when
indeed it has not choked, many a work that should have been of
benefit to the world. For me the consequence of this has been, that
although I was only thirty years old when the first edition of this
work appeared, I live to see this third edition not earlier than my
seventy-second year. Yet for this I find comfort in the words of
Petrarch: Si quis tota die currens,
pervenit ad vesperam satis est (de vera
Sapientia, p. 140). If I also have at last arrived, and
have the satisfaction at the end of my course of seeing the beginning
of my influence, it is with the hope that, according to an old rule
it will endure long in proportion to the lateness of its
beginning.
In this third
edition the reader will miss nothing that was contained in the
second, but will receive considerably more, for, on account of the
additions that have been made in it, it has, with the same type, 136
pages more than the second.
Seven years after
the appearance of the second edition I published two volumes of
“Parerga and Paralipomena.” What is
included under the latter name consists of additions to the
systematic exposition of my philosophy, and would have found its
right place in these volumes, but I was obliged to find a place for
it then where I could, as it was very doubtful whether I would live
to see this third edition. It will be found in the second volume of
the said “Parerga,” and will be easily
recognised from the headings of the chapters.
Page xiv. line 9, for “pancorum” read “paucorum.”
" xix. " 17, for “alchemists” read “adepts.”
" xx. " 10, after “there” insert “unanimous.”
" xxi. " 3, for “will appeal to any thinking mind no
matter when it comprehends it” read “will also some time be comprehended by
another thinking mind.”
" xxii. last line, after “not” insert “in this case.”
" xxiii. line 26, for “conceptions” read “conception.”
" " " 32, for “origin” read “stem.”
" xxiv. " 20, for “a chromatic” read “an achromatic.”
" 6, line 15, for “universality” read “common or reciprocal nature.”
" 21, " 31, for “Σιδωλ” read “Ειδωλ.”
" 31, " 7, for “micrometre” read “micrometer.”
" 41, " 11, for “θαυμαξειν” read “θαυμαζειν.”
" 45, " 22, after “its” insert “iron.”
" 45, " 23, for “extend to” read “quench.”
" 48, " 31, for “λογιμον” read “λογικον.”
" 49, " 22, after “to” insert “abstract”.
" 50, " 14, after “function” insert “the construction of the
concept.”
" 62, " 26, for “Kallisthenes” read “Callisthenes.”
" 75, " 1, for “fictum” read “fictam.”
" 91, " 18, for “latter” read “former.”
" 93, lines 8 and 33, for “νουμενον” read “νοουμενον.”
" 99, line 17, for “42” read “32.”
" 114, " 7, for “ευδαι μονειν” read “ενδαιμονειν.”
" 116 note, for “εφαρμοεξειν” read “εφαρμοζειν.”
" 117, line, 30, for “ψνχης” read “ψυχης.”
" 118, lines 10, 12, for “Kleanthes” read “Cleanthes.”
" 119, line 7, for “philospher” read “philosopher.”
" 141, " 18, for “Σστιν” read “Εστιν.”
" 146, " 23, for “became” read “become.”
" 157, line 4, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 166, " 3, insert § 25.
" 169, " 5, for “Laertes” read “Laertius.”
" 172, " 32, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 182, " 8, for “quidities” read “quiddities.”
" 184, " 30, for “this” read “thus.”
" 205, " 35, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 220, " 32, for “ειδη” read “ειδη.”
" 222, " 24, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 223, lines 4 and 33, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 224, line 8, for “casuality” read “causality.”
" 230, " 19, for “Apollo of Belvedere”
read “Apollo Belvedere.”
" 231, last line, for “Meus” read “Mens.”
Page 247, line 17, for “Great wits to madness sure are near
allied” read “Great wits are sure to madness near
allied.” The lines are not from Pope, as Schopenhauer
says, but from Dryden's “Absalom and Achitophel,” Pt. i., l.
163.
" 251, " 15, for “appear” read “appears.”
" 258, " 18, for “Ahrimines” read “Ahriman.”
" 276, lines 9 and 11, for “casuality” and “casual” read “causality” and “causal;” line 23,
for “Timaus” read “Timæus.”
" 382, line 32, for “as” read “but.”
" 396, " 5, for “αναγκη” read “αναγκῃ.”
" 423, " 35, for “principiu mindividuationis”
read “principium individuationis.”
" 425, " 7, no comma
after “βασιλειαν.”
" 429, " 25, after “chapter” insert “of his.”
" 445, last line, for “ζην” read “ζῃν.”
" 453, lines 4 and 5, for “παρ” read “πας.”
" 455, line 10, for “prineipium” read “principium.”
" 463, " 27, for “ever” read “every.”
" 467, " 5, for “πρως” read “προς.”
" 496, " 25, for “Wiedergeborennen” read “Wiedergeborenen.”
" 520, " 9, for “though this is hard to find out”
read “which is certainly hard to
explain.”
" 531, " 16, for “wish to fruition” read “desire to aversion.”
