The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-16
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lZlng fully now Tar snort or peTI6C- ton it necessarily falls, that it may safely challenge comparisons with the translations that have been made into other languages.
 In particular, I am responsible for the admittedly erroneous rendering of the title. The Ego and His Own" is not an exact English equivalent of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum." But then, there is no exact English equiv alent Perhaps the nearest Is, 'The Unique One and His Property But the unique one is not strictly the Fin zige, for uniqueness connotes not only singleness, while stirner's Einzigkeit Is admirable in his eyes only as such, it being no part of the purpose of his book to distinguish particular Fin zigkeit as more excellent than another.
 Moreover, "The Unique One and His Property" has no graces to compel our forgiveness of its slight inaccura- cy. It Is clumsy and unattractiye. And the same objections may be urg- ed with still greater force against all the other renderings that have been suggested. "The Single One and His Property" The Only One and His Property" 1.-The Lone One and His Property "The Unit and His Prop erty," and last and least and worse, "The Individual and His Prerogative. :" "The Ego and His Own," on the other hand, if not a precise rendering, is at least an excellent title in itself; ex- cellent by it's euphony, its monosyla- bic incislveness, and its telling-Eln- zigkeit Another strong argument in It's favor is the emphatic correspond ence of the phrase "his own with MT Byington's renderings of the kindred words Eigenkeit and Eigner. Moreover no reader will be led astray who bears in mind Stirner's distinction: q am not an ego along with other egos, but the sole ego; I am unique" And to help the reader to bear this in mind, the various renderings of the word Einzige that occur through the volume are often accompanied by foot-notes showing that in the German, one and the same word does duty for all
 If the reader finds the first quarter of this book somewhat forbidding and obscure, he is advised nevertheless not to falter. Close, attention will master almost every difficulty, and if he will but give it, he will find abundant re- ward in what follows. For his guid- ance I may specify one defect in the authors style. When controverting a view oposite to his own, he seldom distinguishes with sufficient clearness his statement of his own view from his re-statement of the antagonistic view. As a result, the reader is plunged into deeper and deeper mysti- fication, until something suddenly re- veals the cause of his misunderstand- ing. after which he must go back and read again. I therefore put him on his guard. The other difficulties lie, as rule in the structure of his work. AS to these I can hardly do better than ! translate the following passage from Prof, Basch's alluded to above, There is nothing more disconcerting than the first approach to this strange book Stirner does not condescend to inform us as to the architecture of his edl- flee or furnish us the slightest guiding thread, The apparent divisions of the book are few and misleading From the first page to the last a unique thought circulates, but 1t di- vides itself among an infinity of ves- sels and er' cries in each of which runs blood rich in ferments that one is tempt' to describe them all There is no prt yress in the development and the repet Hons are innumerable.
 The re der who is not deterred by l this odd ', or rather absence of com position lives proof of genuine intel. [ lectual c rage. At first one seems tC 1 be confro "a with collection of es. says strung together, with throng ot ! aphorisms.
 I But, If you read this book severa times; if after penetrating the intima. | cy of each of it's parts, you then tray, erse it as a whole-gradually the frag. ments weld themselves together, an( Stirner's thought is revealed in all it. unity, in all its force, and in all its depth"
 A word about the dedication. Mack ey's investigations have brought tt light that Marie Dachnhardt had no thing whatever in common with Stir ner, and so was unworthy of the hon or conferred upon her, She was nc Eigene, I therefore reproduce tn, 1 dedication merely in the interest a ] historical accuracy.
 Happy as am in the appearance o this book, my joy is not unmixed witt sorrow. The cherished project was al dear to the heart of Dr. Walker a. it was to mine, and I deeply griev that he is no longer with us to shar our delight in the fruition. Nothins however, can rob us of the mastery introduction that he wrote for thi volume Gin 1903, or perhaps earlier) from which will not longer keep in reader. This introduction, no nor than the book itself, shall that Einzige Death, make his Eigentum.
 B. R. T.
 February 1907
 For a sample of stirners messag the following-the concluding words o the book-is given:
 Get away from me with your philan thropy! Creep in you phIlanthropist, in to the dens of vice finger awhile i the throngs of the great city: Will vol not everywhere find sin, and sin am again sin? Will you not wall over cor rupt humanity not lament at the mon
 strous egoism? Will you see a rich ma without finding him pitiless and egois
 tic? Perhaps you already call your self an atheist, but you remain tru
 to the Christian feeling that came
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