Chapter XI · Notes
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
43 The greatest representatives of Gnosticism are Basilides, Valentinus, and Marcion, all three living in the first half of the second century B.C. At the beginning of that century all sorts of Gnostic systems spring up, as did speculative ones at the beginning of the nineteenth. The two great Christian teachers of Alexandria, Flavius Clemens at the end of the second century A.D., and Origen at the beginning of the third, try to bring the Gnostic speculations into harmony with the doctrine of the Church.
44 J. G. Fichte: The Foundations of All Scientific Theories (1794); The System of Moral Teaching According to the Principles of Science (1798); The Destiny of Man (1800); How to Attain to the Happy Life (1806); Addresses to the German Nation (1808).
A complete edition of J. G. Fichte’s works was edited by his son, J. H. Fichte, in 1845 and the following years. A good selection has been published by F. Medicus (1908 to 1912).
45 This and the following quotations are from The Destiny of Man.