{anti-FEUER/NIET} And this would inaugurate a genuine popularisation of the deepest Knowledge. In this or that way to prepare the ground for cure of ills inevitable in the evolution of the human race … might fitly be the mission of a true Art appealing to the Folk itself, to the Folk in its noblest, and at present its ideal sense.” [929W-{3-7/78} Public and Popularity: PW Vol. VI, p. 80-81]
[930W-{7/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 105]
[P. 105] {FEUER} “… visit from Herr Levi (who touches R. by saying that, as a Jew, he is a walking anachronism). R. tells him that, if the Catholics consider themselves superior to the Protestants, the Jews are the most superior of all, being the eldest.” [930W-{7/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 105]
[931W-{7/31/78}CD Vol. II, p. 126]
[P. 126] {SCHOP} “ ‘Music and religion are directed at the will, but since compassion is aroused, the individual is raised above himself to the species level, and to this extent the world is equivalent to God.’ ” [931W-{7/31/78}CD Vol. II, p. 126]
[932W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 127]
[P. 127] “I say goodbye to Herr Levi, whose feelings toward us arouse complete sympathy. Speaking of the B. Bl., R. said to Herr Levi, ‘I am interested only in complete truthfulness, I seek no quarrel with anybody, but I shall state my opinion of everything that comes into my mind, sparing nobody.’ {FEUER] {SCHOP} We talk a lot with R. about the attitude of the Israelites to mystical matters, closed doors … .” [932W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 127]
[933W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 128]
[P. 128] {FEUER} “We speak also about my last conversation with Herr Levi. He does not seem to fully understand ‘Parsifal,’ and I tell him that R.’s article theoretically bears almost the same relationship to the poem as his words on music (the loving woman) and on drama (the man) in ‘Opera and Drama’ bear to Bruennhilde and Siegfried.” [933W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 128]
[934W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 128]
[P. 128] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Through this R. comes to Nietzsche, of whom he says: ‘That bad person has taken everything from me, even the weapons with which he now attacks me. How sad that he should be so perverse – so clever, yet at the same time so shallow!’ “ [934W-{8/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 128]
[935W-{9/78} The Public In Time And Space: PW Vol. VI, p. 85]
[P. 85] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} “… either public and artist fit each other, or they absolutely do not. In the latter case the Historic-scientific critic will always lay the blame upon the artist, and pronounce him unfit for anything; for it thinks is has proofs that no pre-eminent individual can ever