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★ 142 ★ will write logical epigrams. Is he so drunk with life, that they will be modern dithyrambs, which a person must certainly enjoy and judge as a dithyrambs. A work of art is half intoxicated: In complete drunkenness the work of art dissolves. From the human arises an animal. The character of this animal is dithyrambic. The animal is an overly sated life, the plant a deficient life, the human a free life.

129. Hemsterhuis is very often a logical  Homeric rhapsodist.

130. Goethe's philosophemes are truly epic.

131. Every individual is the centerpoint of a system of emanations.

132. Our books are an informal kind of paper money that scholars bring into circulation. This passion of the modern world for a paper pittance is the ground from which they spring up, often in one night.

133. In very many works the raisonnement of the author, or the bulk of them in which facts and experience are glued together,  is a confluence of the strangest psychic phenomenon—exceedingly educational for the anthropognostic—full of hints of asthenic complexes and indirect inflammations.

134. Reviewers are literary police officers. Doctors are a kind of police officer. Therefore, there should be critical journals that artfully treat authors medically and surgically, and not just track down the sickness and treat them with schadenfreude. The previous methods of treatment were for the most part barbaric.

True police are not just defensive and polemical against existing evil, they especially seek to improve the diseased structures.