Monday, October 20:
Bad night for R.; however, he takes pleasure in my picture and says it calls to him, “Richel, Richel, ideality.” The event of the day is the arrival of Herr von Stein, a young, fair-haired, fine-looking man, a true German, very serious, but at the same time friendly. He is indeed willing to undertake Siegfried’s education! We still cannot quite believe it; and in the evening friend Wolzogen as well - “a black one and a white one!”
The only thing that alarms us is the discovery that our new friend is a supporter of Dühring! Also an opponent of Christianity - but it all emerges from him in an unaffected and indeed noble manner.