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212 THE WILL IN NATURE.
to look at the world with a really unbiassed ere. Now
no philosophy is so near to us, both as regards time and
language, as that of Kant, and it is at the same time a
philosophy, compared with which all those which went
before are superficial. On this account it is unhesita
tingly to be preferred to all others.
But I perceive that the news of Caspar Hauser s escape
has already spread among our professors of philosophy ;
for I see that some of them have already given vent to
their feelings in bitter and venomous abuse of me in
various periodicals, making up by falsehoods for their
deficiency
of wit. 1
Nevertheless I do not complain of all
this, because I am rejoiced at the cause and amused by
the effect of it, as illustrative of Grothe s verse :
FRANKFURT AM MEIN,
August, 1854.
" Es will der Spitz aus unserm Stall
Uns immerfort :
begleiten
Doch seines Bellens lauter Schall
Beweist nur, dass wir reiten."
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER.
cast-off opinions, which are brought there every six months to be aired
and beaten. [Add. to 3rd ed.]
1 I take this opportunity urgently to request that the public will not
believe unconditionally any accounts of what I am supposed to have said,
even when they are given as quotations ; but will first verify the existence
of these quotations in my works. In this way many a falsehood will be
detected, which can however only be stamped as a direct forgery when
accompanied by quotation marks (" "). [Add. to 3rd ed.]