Andreas dies: and
Teufelsdroeckh learns the secret of his birth: His reflections
thereon. The Nameless University. Statistics of Imposture much
wanted. Bitter fruits of Rationalism: Teufelsdroeckh's
religious difficulties. The young Englishman Herr Towgood.
Modern Friendship (p. 76).

CHAP. IV. _Getting under Way_

The grand thaumaturgic Art of Thought. Difficulty in fitting
Capability to Opportunity, or of getting underway. The
advantage of Hunger and Bread-Studies. Teufelsdroeckh has to
enact the stern mono-drama of _No object and no rest_.
Sufferings as Auscultator. Given up as a man of genius,
Zaehdarm House. Intolerable presumption of young men. Irony
and its consequences. Teufelsdroeckh's Epitaph on Count
Zaehdarm (p. 90).

CHAP. V. _Romance_

Teufelsdroeckh gives up his Profession. The heavenly mystery
of Love. Teufelsdroeckh's feeling of worship towards women.
First and only love. Blumine. Happy hearts and free tongues.
The infinite nature of Fantasy. Love's joyful progress; sudden
dissolution; and final catastrophe (p. 101).

CHAP. VI. _Sorrows of Teufelsdroeckh_

Teufelsdroeckh's demeanour thereupon. Turns pilgrim. A last
wistful look on native Entepfuhl: Sunset amongst primitive
Mountains. Basilisk-glance of the Barouche-and-four. Thoughts
on View-hunting. Wanderings and Sorrowings (p. 112).

CHAP. VII. _The Everlasting No_

Loss of Hope, and of Belief. Profit-and-Loss Philosophy,
Teufelsdroeckh in his darkness and despair still clings to
Truth and follows Duty. Inexpressible pains and fears of
Unbelief. Fever-crisis: Protest against the Everlasting No:
Baphometic Fire-baptism (p. 121).

CHAP. VIII. _Centre of Indifference_

Teufelsdroeckh turns now outwardly to the _Not-me_; and finds
wholesomer food. Ancient Cities: Mystery of their origin and
growth: Invisible inheritances and possessions. Power and
virtue of a true Book. Wagram Battlefield: War. Great Scenes
beheld by the Pilgrim: Great Events, and Great Men. Napoleon,
a divine missionary, preaching _La carriere ouverte aux
talens_. Teufelsdroeckh at the North Cape: Modern means of
self-defence. Gunpowder and duelling. The Pilgrim, despising
his miseries, reaches the Centre of Indifference (p. 128).

CHAP. IX. _The Everlasting Yea_

Temptations in the Wilderness: Victory over the Tempter.