e.
[In Maclaurin's ›An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries.‹ 2d edition. London 1750 hat Schopenhauer Randbemerkungen gemacht. Zu der Stelle S. 257: Thus Sir Is. Newton saw... and that the moon was only a greater projectile that received its motion, in
the beginning
of things,
from the Almighty Author
of the universe, worin Sch. die herausgehobenen Worte unterstrichen hat, bemerkte er:]
A kick, said Goethe to me 1814.
[Dann S. 313 zu einer ähnlichen Stelle, in der
The Creator
von Sch. unterstrichen ist:]
A kick! S. 257.