Note 6 — Section 138. NOT NEAR ENOUGH YET.
Reading edition
that they even (auch) through repeated failure (Fehlschlagen) or pertinacious (hartnäckig) opposition (Widerstand, m.), which would have discouraged (entmutigt hätte, which place at the end of this clause) most of their compeers (Standesgenossen), were not tired out of any plan they had formed (sich nicht von ihrem einmal gefaßten Plane abbringen ließen).