This lecture was taken from Volume III of _The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche_, Dr. Oscar Levy, Ed., J. M. Kennedy, Translator, 1910] At the present day no clear and consistent opinion seems to be held regarding Classical Philology. We are conscious of this in the circles of the learned just as much as among the followers of that science itself. The cause of this lies in its many-sided character, in the lack of an abstract unity, and in the inorganic aggregation of heterogeneous scientific activities which are connected with one another only by the name "Philology." It must be freely admitted that philology is to some extent borrowed from several other sciences, and is mixed together…
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