Note 123 — ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER III.
Reading edition
He sums up in the words of Goethe, thus given in the translation of his lectures from which we have quoted—
"Woe! woe! Thou hast destroyed The beautiful world With powerful fist; In ruin 'tis hurled, By the blow of a demigod shattered. The scattered Fragments into the void we carry, Deploring The beauty perished beyond restoring."