Chapter XXXVII: Book II: CHAP. I. Genesis

Old Andreas Futteral and Gretchen his wife: their quiet home.
Advent of a mysterious stranger, who deposits with them a
young infant, the future Herr Diogenes Teufelsdröckh.
After-yearnings of the youth for his unknown Father. Sovereign
power of Names and Naming. Diogenes a flourishing Infant (p.
61).

CHAP. II. _Idyllic_

Happy Childhood! Entepfuhl: Sights, hearings and experiences
of the boy Teufelsdröckh; their manifold teaching. Education;
what it can do, what cannot. Obedience our universal duty and
destiny. Gneschen sees the good Gretchen pray (p. 68).

CHAP. III. _Pedagogy_

Teufelsdröckh's School. His Education. How the ever-flowing
Kuhbach speaks of Time and Eternity. The Hinterschlag
Gymnasium; rude Boys; and pedant Professors. The need of true
Teachers, and their due recognition. Father Andreas dies: and
Teufelsdröckh learns the secret of his birth: His reflections
thereon. The Nameless University. Statistics of Imposture much
wanted. Bitter fruits of Rationalism: Teufelsdröckh'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. Teufelsdröckh has to
enact the stern mono-drama of _No object and no rest_.
Sufferings as Auscultator. Given up as a man of genius,
Zähdarm House. Intolerable presumption of young men. Irony
and its consequences. Teufelsdröckh's Epitaph on Count
Zähdarm (p. 90).

CHAP. V. _Romance_

Teufelsdröckh gives up his Profession. The heavenly mystery
of Love. Teufelsdröckh'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 Teufelsdröckh_

Teufelsdröckh'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,
Teufelsdröckh 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_

Teufelsdröckh 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 carrière ouverte aux
talens_. Teufelsdröckh 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.
Annihilation of Self. Belief in God, and love to Man. The
origin of Evil, a problem ever requiring to be solved anew:
Teufelsdröckh's solution. Love of Happiness a vain whim: A
Higher in man than Love of Happiness. The Everlasting Yea.
Worship of Sorrow. Voltaire: his task now finished. Conviction
worthless, impossible, without Conduct. The true Ideal, the
Actual: Up and work! (p. 138).

CHAP. X. _Pause_

Conversion; a spiritual attainment peculiar to the modern Era.
Teufelsdröckh accepts Authorship as his divine calling. The
scope of the command _Thou shalt not steal_.--Editor begins to
suspect the authenticity of the Biographical documents; and
abandons them for the great Clothes volume. Result of the
preceding ten Chapters: Insight into the character of
Teufelsdröckh: His fundamental beliefs, and how he was forced
to seek and find them (p. 149).