[186] See Brandes: The Romantic School in Germany, ch. XI.
[187] Alfred de Musset saw his double in the stress of his affair with George Sand (see Nuit de Décembre), Jean Valjean (Les Misérables) sees his double in the stress of his conversion. Peter Bell also sees his double at the emotional crisis in Wordsworth’s poem of that name.
[188] Thus Spake Zarathustra, LXIX.
[189] F. Schlegel: Lyceumfragment, no. 42.
[190] E.g., canto III, CVII-CXI.
[191] Confessions, Livre XII (1765).
[192] Cf. Th. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, I, 402.
[193] Wordsworth: Miscellaneous Sonnets, XII.
[194] In much the same spirit the Japanese hermit, Kamo Chōmei (thirteenth century), expresses the fear that he may forget Buddha because of his fondness for the mountains and the moon.—See article on nature in Japan by M. Revon in Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.
[195] Confessions, Bk. X, ch. IX.