CHAPTER XI Notes

43 The greatest representatives of Gnosticism are Basilides, Valentinus, and Marcion, all three living in the first half of the second century B.C. At the beginning of that century all sorts of Gnostic systems spring up, as did speculative ones at the beginning of the nineteenth. The two great Christian teachers of Alexandria, Flavius Clemens at the end of the second century A.D., and Origen at the beginning of the third, try to bring the Gnostic speculations into harmony with the doctrine of the Church.

44 J. G. Fichte: _The Foundations of All Scientific Theories_ (1794); _The System of Moral Teaching According to the Principles of Science_ (1798); _The Destiny of Man_ (1800); _How to Attain to the Happy Life_ (1806); _Addresses to the German Nation_ (1808).

A complete edition of J. G. Fichte’s works was edited by his son, J. H. Fichte, in 1845 and the following years. A good selection has been published by F. Medicus (1908 to 1912).

45 This and the following quotations are from _The Destiny of Man_.