The Perfect Wagnerite, a Commentary On the Ring of the Niblungs
The Perfect Wagnerite, a Commentary On the Ring of the Niblungs
Shaw Bernard
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We have changed our system from Aristocracy to Democracy Siegfried as Protestant 83 The most inevitable dramatic conception, then, of the nineteenth century, is that of a perfectly- naive hero upsetting religion, law and order in all directions, and establishing in their place the unfettered action of Humanity doing exactly what it likes, and producing order instead of confusion thereby because it likes to do what is necessary for the good of the race. This conception, already incipient in Adam... Smith's Wealth of Nations, was certain at last to reach some great artist, and be embodied by him in a masterpiece. It was also certain that if that master happened to be a German, he should take delight in describing his hero as the Freewiller of Necessity, thereby beyond measure exasperating Englishmen with a congenital incapacity for metaphysics. PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM Unfortunately, human enlightenment does not progress by nicer and nicer adjustments, but by violent corrective reactions which invariably send us clean over our saddle and would bring us to the ground on the other side if the next reaction did not send us back again with equally excessive zeal.
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