[508W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 192]
[P. 192] {FEUER} ” … its [i.e., the State’s] kernel, also, is bared us in the Oedipus-saga: as the seed of all offences we recognise the rulership of Laius, since for sake of its undiminished possession he became an unnatural father. From this possession grown into an ownership (Eigenthum), which wondrously enough is looked on as the base of all good order, there issue all the crimes of myth and history.” [508W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 192]
[509W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 193]
[P. 193] {FEUER} “The Political State lives only on the vices of society, whose virtuesare derived solely from the human individuality. Faced with the vices of society, which alone it can espy, the State cannot perceive the virtues which society acquires from that individuality. (…) In their ‘Fate’ the Greeks mistook the nature of the Individuality, because it disturbed Society’s moral wont: to battle against this Fate, they armed themselves with the political State. Now, our Fate is the political State, in which the free Individuality perceives its destroying Destiny (Schicksal). But the essence of the political State is caprice, whereas the essence of the free Individuality is necessity.” [509W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 193]
[510W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 195-197]
[P. 195] {FEUER} “It all the more necessarily became the poet’s task to display the battle in which the Individual sought to free himself from the political State or religious Dogma … . (…)
[P. 196] {FEUER} The dangerous corner of the human brain, into which the entire individuality had fled for refuge, -- the State [P. 197] endeavoured to sweep it out as well, by the aid of religious Dogma; but here the State was doomed to failure, since it could merely bring up hypocrites, i.e. State-burghers who deal otherwise than as they think. Yet it was from thinking, that there first arose the force to withstand the State. The first purely human stir of freedom manifested itself in warding off the bondage of religious dogma; and freedom of thought the State at last was forced to yield.” [510W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 195-197]
[511W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 198]
[P. 198] {FEUER} “To the Feeling the at-one-with-itself alone is understandable; whatsoever is at variance with itself, what has not reached an actual and definite manifestment, confounds the Feeling and drives it into thinking, -- drives it into an act of combination which does away with it as Feeling.
{FEUER} In order to convince it, the poet who turns towards the Feeling must be already so at one with himself, that he can dispense with any aid from the mechanism of Logic and address himself with full consciousness to the infallible receptive powers (Empfaengniss) of the un-conscious, purely human Feeling.” [511W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 198]
