[193] Der geistigen absoluten Innerlichkeit. Lit., "the spiritual and absolute mode of the inward life." He refers, of course, to Christianity, with its life of the pure in heart and the pure reason.
[194] Besonnenheit.
[195] "Iliad," XVI, vv. 783-849.
[196] I very much doubt whether the words Sondern das Gerede allein can have this meaning, but the obvious meaning, "but only the gossip," hardly makes sense. I think the sentence requires revision.
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CLASSICAL TYPE OF ART
The gods of classical art contain in themselves the germ of their overthrow; consequently, when this fatal defect which they include is brought to consciousness through the elaboration of art itself, they bring about the dissolution of the classical Ideal at the same time. We established as the principle of this, so far as we have here to deal with it, that kind of spiritual individuality which secures in every respect an adequate expression in bodily or external existence immediate to our senses. This individuality was enclosed within a complex of divine personalities, whose definition is not essentially and withal from the first given up to the contingent condition in which the everlasting gods receive the appearance of dissolution for man's conscious life no less than for his artistic creation.