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150 of Morals (1887), Twilight of the Idols (1888), The Antichristian (1888) "The Case of Wagner" and "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (both 1888, and little more than pamphlets). Besides these, are the autobiographical notes (not originally meant for publication) entitled Ecce Homo, and voluminous material for a contemplated and never achieved systematic work, Will to Power—material which has been more or less successfully put together by later hands and now appears under that title (second and much improved edition, 1906). There are also three posthumous volumes of private notes and unfinished sketches.

The most general mark of the period is confidence—one might say, joy: the book which may be taken as a herald of it is entitled Joyful Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft). Nietzsche is now quite emerging from the gloom and depression that had ensued on the overthrow of his first ideals. He had momentarily lost his goal; he is now sure of one. He needed a cure from his early romanticism, he had had too much sweet, too rich a diet; but he has got it—and is well again (in soul, at least). Chastened, disciplined, he feels once more ready for battle. As our fathers, he says, brought sacrifices of wealth