[54] I think this gives the nearest approach I can make to the self-coined word Grundwohlseyns, lit., "the at bottom well being."
[55] Subjektiven Substantialität. Ideal, that is, as opposed to a substantive content based on the facts of living people. Impersonations of qualities imagined rather than portraits of living men, ideal therefore in a theoretic and bad sense.
[56] As previously stated I adopt Hegel's expression, being unable to express it otherwise better. The whole emotional condition is more or less the meaning, but it is rooted in Greek literature.
[57] In dieser Bestimmtheit, lit., in this particular definition of their content.
[58] Hegel may mean that the passions are opposed to each other. The nett result is the same.
[59] Lit., "Is made the tragic lever."
[60] The epithet might mean also "suggestive of personal irritation," but the other epithets rather negative this rendering.
[61] Räderwerk. The whole of this passage, in its theoretical analysis, is extremely difficult not merely to translate, but to follow clearly.
[62] I presume this is the meaning of Pursche or Bursche, and not merely "youngster."
[63] Abstract in the sense that the vices are detached in their extreme from concrete human nature.