[404W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 37]
[P. 37] {FEUER} ”Christianity adjusts the ills of an honourless, useless, and sorrowful existence of mankind on earth, by the miraculous love of God; who had not – as the noble Greek supposed – created man for a happy and self-conscious life upon this earth, but had here imprisoned him in a loathsome dungeon: so as, in reward for the self-contempt that poisoned him therein, to prepare him for a posthumous state of endless comfort and inactive ecstasy.” [404W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 37]
[405W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 40]
[P. 40] {FEUER} “Only when the enthusiasm of belief had smouldered down, when the Church openly proclaimed herself as naught but a worldly despotism appreciable by the senses, in alliance with the no less material worldly absolutism of the temporal rule which she had sanctified; only then commenced the so-called Renaissance of Art.” [405W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 40]
[406W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 48-49]
[P. 48] {FEUER} “The true artist finds delight not only in the aim of his creation, but also in the very process of creation, in the handling and moulding of his material. (…) The journeyman reckons only the goal of his labour, the profit which his toil shall bring him; the energy which he expends, gives him no pleasure; it is but a fatigue, an inevitable task, a burden which he would gladly give over to a machine; his toil is but a fettering chain. (…) [P. 49] But if he bargains away the product of his toil, all that remains to him is its mere money-worth; and thus his energy can never rise above the character of the busy strokes of a machine; in his eyes it is but weariness, and bitter, sorrowful toil. The latter is the lot of the Slave of Industry; and our modern factories afford us the sad picture of the deepest degradation of man, -- constant labour, killing both body and soul, without joy or love, often almost without aim.” [406W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 48-49]
[407W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 50]
[P. 50] {FEUER} “This Slave thus became the fateful hinge of the whole destiny of the world. The Slave, by sheer reason of the assumed necessity of his slavery, has exposed the null and fleeting nature of all the strength and beauty of exclusive Grecian manhood, and has shown to all time that Beauty and Strength, as attributes of public life, can then alone prove lasting blessings, when they are the common gifts of all mankind.” [407W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 50]
[408W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 51-52]
[P. 51] {FEUER} “Yet Art remains in its essence what it ever was; we have only to say, that it is not present in our modern public system. It lives, however, and has ever lived in the individual conscience, as the one, fair, indivisible Art. Thus the only difference is this: with the Greeks it lived in the public conscience, whereas to-day it lives alone in the conscience of private persons, the public un-conscience recking nothing of it. Therefore in its flowering time the Grecian Art was
