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which was delivered . . . May 12, 1938. It is here printed without any changes or additions. . . .”) Engl. tr. by E. B. Ashton, Nietzsche and Christianity. Chicago: Henry Regnery, Gateway Editions, 1961. A miniature version of the approach encountered in Jaspers’ big Nietzsche .
    â€”——. “Kierkegaard und Nietzsche” in Vernunft und Existenz. Groningen: J. W. Wolters, 1935. Engl. tr. by William Earle in Reason and Existenz. New York: Noonday Press, 1955. Reprinted in Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre . New York: Meridian Books, 1956, pp. 158—84.
    Kaufmann, Walter. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist , Antichrist . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. 2nd rev. ed., New York: Meridian Books, 1956. 3rd rev. ed. (with substantial additions, including a comprehensive bibliography, a long appendix dealing with recent German editions of Nietzsche, and a detailed discussion of Nietzsche’s relationship to Paul Rée and Lou Salomé), Princeton: Princeton University Press, and New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1968.
    â€”———. Five chapters on Nietzsche in From Shakespeare to Existentialism . Boston: Beacon Press, 1959; rev. ed., Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1960.
    â€”———. Articles on Nietzsche in Encyclopedia Americana; Encyclopaedia Britannica; Collier’s Encyclopedia; Grolier Encyclopedia; The Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
    â€”——. Tragedy and Philosophy . Garden City, N.Y.: Double-day, 1968.
    â€”———. Exposes of My Sister and I as a forgery, falsely attributed to Nietzsche, in Milwaukee Journal, February 24, 1952; in Partisan Review , vol. XIX no. 3 (May/June 1952), 372—76; and of the rev. ed. in The Philosophical Review , vol. LXIV no. 1 (January 1955), 152f.
    Klages, Ludwig. Die Psychologischen Errungenschaften Nietzsches. Leipzig: Barth, 1926.
    Löwith, Karl. Von Hegel bis Nietzsche. Zürich and New York: Europa, 1941. Engl. tr. by David E. Green, From Hegel to Nietzsche . New York: Holt, 1964; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1967. Includes eight sections on Nietzsche.
    Love, Frederick R. Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. A good monograph that takes into account Nietzsche’s compositions, including unpublished items in the archives in Weimar. It is full of pertinent, but untranslated, German quotations. The break with Wagner is not included. Love shows how Nietzsche. never was “a passionate devotee of Wagnerian music.”
    Morgan, George A., Jr. What Nietzsche Means . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941. Reprinted, unrev., New York: Harper & Row, Torchbooks, 1965. An exceptionally careful study very useful as a reference work.
    Vaihinger, Hans. Die Philosophie des Als-Ob. Leipzig: Meiner, 1911. Eng. tr. by C. K. Ogden, The Philosophy of ‘As If.’ New York: Harcourt Brace, 1924. The chapter “Nietzsche and His Doctrine of Conscious Illusion (The Will to Illusion),” pp. 341—62, remains one of the most interesting studies in any language of Nietzsche’s theory of knowledge.

THE PORTABLE
    NIETZSCHE

LETTER TO HIS SISTER
    (Bonn, 1865)
    . . . As for your principle that truth is always on the side of the more difficult, I admit this in part. However, it is difficult to believe that 2 times 2 is not 4; does that make it true? On the other hand, is it really so difficult simply to accept everything that one has been brought up on and that has gradually struck deep roots—what is considered truth in the circle of one’s relatives and of many good men, and what, moreover, really comforts and elevates man? Is that more difficult than to strike new paths, fighting the habitual, experiencing the insecurity of independence and the frequent wavering of one’s feelings and even one’s conscience, proceeding often without any