[1027]. See chap. xxii. Selbstdenken. Schopenhauer’s maxim, “Reading is a mere succedaneum (“Surrogat”) for thinking oneself,” at once shows what he means, and invites the reply, “Yes: but a man who knows how to read always makes his reading the seed of his thought.”
[1028]. § 287. Art. of Lit., p. 11.
[1029]. § 244. Art. of Lit. composes its section “on Criticism” of part of this context and another. The whole of the original chapter xx., “Über[“Über] Urtheil, Kritik, Beifall und Ruhren,” is important, though the writer’s own soreness betrays itself, as usual, rather too much.
[1030]. For the origin of the section thus headed in Art. of Lit., see back to chap. iii. of this part of P. und P.
[1031]. Book III. and App.
[1032]. § 39.
[1033]. App. on Poetry.
[1034]. § 51.
[1036]. One could develop, with special relevance, the philosopher’s peremptory limitation of the attractive season of womankind to the time between the ages of eighteen and eight-and-twenty: and his positive anathema on the retroussé nose. It is astonishing how this feature disturbs critics! Cf. Lessing, Alison, Carrière, &c.