[53]Reference to a comedy by Farquhar, which enjoyed a moderate popularity in Copenhagen.
[54]i.e., evidently, she docs not exist because of herself; hence she is in a "negative" relation to herself. The center of this relation is "what attracts all the world."
[55]In Oehlenschläger's "Aladdin."
[56]In the Danish, a pun on the homonyms en brud and et brud.
[57]Job 2, 10.
[58]According to the Jutland Laws (A. D. 1241) a man is permitted to punish his wife, when she has misbehaved, with stick and with rod, but not with weapon. In the Danish Law (1683) this right is restricted to children and servants. S. V.
[59]Containing the second part of "Stages on Life's Road," entitled "Reflections on Marriage in Refutation of Objections."