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[P. 204] {FEUER} “The State – taken at its wisest – thrusts upon us the experiences of History, as the plumb-line for our dealings; yet we can only deal sincerely, when through our Instinctive dealings themselves we reach experience; [P. 205] an experience taught us by communications can only be resultful for us, when by our instinctive dealings we make it over again for ourselves. Thus the true, the reasonable love of age toward youth substantiates itself in this; that it does not make its own experiences the measure for youth’s dealings, but points it toward a fresh experience, and enriches its own thereby … .” [516W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 204-205]
[517W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 205]
[P. 205] {FEUER} “The Going-under of the State means therefore the falling-away of the barrier which the egoistic vanity of Experience, in the form of Prejudice, has erected against the spontaneity of individual dealings. This barrier at present takes the place that naturally belongs to love, and by its essence it is lovelessness; i.e. Experience eaten up with its own conceit; and at last, the violently prosecuted will to reap no more experiences, -- the self-seeking narrow-mindedness of Habit, the cruel doggedness of Quiet.” [517W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 205]
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[P. 206] {FEUER} “Already-experienced age is able to take according to their characteristic import the deeds of youth, by which the latter unconsciously evinces its instinctive thrust, and to survey them in their full conjunction: it thus can vindicate these deeds more completely than their youthful agent, since it knows how to explain and consciously display them. In the repose of age we thus win the ‘moment’ of highest poetic faculty; and only that more youthful man can make this faculty his own, who wins that repose, i.e. that justness toward the phenomena of Life. –
{FEUER} The loving admonition of the experienced to the inexperienced, of the peaceful to the passionate, of the beholder to the doer, is given the most persuasively and resultfully by bringing faithfully before the instinctive agent his inmost being. He who is possessed with life’s unconscious eagerness, will never be brought by general moral exhortations to a critical knowledge (zur urtheilfaehigen Erkenntniss) of his own being, but this can only succeed entirely when in a likeness faithfully held up before him he is able to look upon himself; for right cognisance is re-cognition, just as right conscience is knowledge of our own Unconsciousness. The admonisher is the understanding, the experienced-one’s conscious power of view: the thing to be admonished is the feeling, the unconscious bent-to-doing of the seeker for experience.” [518W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 206]
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[P. 206] {FEUER} “ … Understanding justified by Feeling – no longer entangled in the feelings of this unit, but upright towards Feeling in general – is the Vernunft. As Vernunft the Understanding is so far [P. 207] superior to the Feeling, as it can judge all-righteously the agency of individual feelings, in their contact with their objects and opposites; which latter likewise act from individual feelings. It is the highest social force, itself conditioned by Society alone … .
