Note 109 — Chapter I · THE MAN
Reading edition
In the first edition (1852) there came after this a passage in which Wagner more than hints at sexual escapades in his youth. He deleted the passage from the second edition (1872), as also the following words after "moral bigotry of our social system"; namely,—"as what people call unfortunately to-be-tolerated vice." See Mr. Ellis's translation of the Prose Works, i. 396.