1943 was a prolific year. Besides the concluding part of the Hegel seminar and the interpretations occasioned by the Hölderlin centenary, the fourth edition of WM appeared with an important Epilogue, WW (maturing since 1930) reached the public for the first time and the university lecture courses were concerned with the pre-Socratics. Of all these, the most significant for our purposes is, perhaps, the famous Epilogue.¹