Chapter 3 —Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution.

§ 1. Meaning of the term "execution." 36

§ 2. The first quality of execution is truth. 36

§ 3. The second, simplicity. 36

§ 4. The third, mystery. 37

§ 5. The fourth, inadequacy; and the fifth, decision. 37

§ 6. The sixth, velocity. 37

§ 7. Strangeness an illegitimate source of pleasure in execution. 37

§ 8. Yet even the legitimate sources of pleasure in execution are inconsistent with each other. 38

§ 9. And fondness for ideas of power leads to the adoption of the lowest. 39

§ 10. Therefore perilous. 40

§ 11. Recapitulation. 40

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