[448]. The original is here very obscure; it reads: “... es ist der ‘Gebildete,’ jener Anhänger eines Kultus des geistigen Mittelmasses und der Offentlichkeit als Kultstätte.”—Tr.
[449]. See P. Wendland, Die hellenist.-röm. Kultur (1912), pp. 75 et seq.
[450]. See Vol. II, pp. 318 et seq.
[451]. See Vol. II, pp. 269 et seq.
[452]. Compare my Preussentum und Sozialismus, pp. 22 et seq.
[453]. See Vol. II, pp. 324 et seq., 368 et seq.
[454]. See Vol. II, p. 345. It is possible that the peculiar style of Heraclitus, who came of a priestly family of the temple of Ephesus, is an example of the form in which the old Orphic wisdom was orally transmitted.
[455]. See Vol. II, p. 307.
[456]. Here we are considering only the scholastic side. The mystic side, from which Pythagoras and Leibniz were not very far, reached its culminations in Plato and Goethe, and in our own case it has been extended beyond Goethe by the Romantics, Hegel and Nietzsche, whereas Scholasticism exhausted itself with Kant—and Aristotle—and degenerated thereafter into a routine-profession.
[457]. Zeno the Stoic, not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, whose mathematical fineness has already been alluded to.—Tr.