[458]. Neue Paralipomena, § 656.

[459]. Even the modern idea that unconscious and impulsive acts of life are completely efficient, while intellect can only bungle, is to be found in Schopenhauer (Vol. II, cap. 30).

[460]. In the chapter “Zur Metaphysik der Geschlechtsliebe” (II, 44) the idea of natural selection for the preservation of the genus is anticipated in full.

[461]. See Vol. II, pp. 36 et seq.

[462]. This began to appear in 1867. But the preliminary work Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie came out in the same year as Darwin’s masterpiece.

[463]. Vol. II, p. 625. See, for example, Leonard, Relativitäts-Prinzip, Aether, Gravitation (1920), pp. 20 et seq.

[464]. See Vol. II, pp. 369 et seq., 624 et seq.

[465]. See p. [57].

[466]. E.g., in Boltzmann’s formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: “the logarithm of the probability of a state is proportional to the entropy of that state.” Every word in this contains an entire scientific concept, capable only of being sensed and not described.

[467]. See Vol. II, p. 369.