My attitude to myself at that time, and the unearthly certitude with which I grasped my life task and all its world historic consequences, is well revealed throughout the book, but more particularly in one very significant passage, despite the fact that, with my instinctive cunning, I once more circumvented the use of the little word I, not however, this time, in order to shed world historic glory on the names of Schopenhauer and Wagner, but on that of another of my friends, the excellent Dr. Paul fortunately much too acute a creature to be deceived others were less subtle.