[996W-{11/25/79}CD Vol. II, p. 401]
[P. 401] {FEUER} “… R. suddenly quoted Egmont’s words, ‘I set you an example,’ and said this was what made Egmont so significant, this was the German conception of freedom – not to want to go on living when all one could look forward to was fear and the need for circumspection. R. spoke these words with great vehemence, as if he were telling me the basic conviction of his life.” [996W-{11/25/79}CD Vol. II, p. 401]
[997W-{12/1/79} CD Vol. II, p. 407]
[P. 407] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “At breakfast we come back to yesterday’s conversation about natural laws, and R. says he will once more tell Herr v. S. that they are of no benefit, no help at all for morals and ethics – ‘and if on top of that their application is despised, nothing remains of it all but idle sport.’ “ [997W-{12/1/79} CD Vol. II, p. 407]
[998W-{12/3/79} CD Vol. II, P. 408]
[P. 408] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “… we then discuss what a young man of fire and intelligence should do in these times, R. expatiates on the theme of science, the physical truths ‘against which there is nothing to be said, but which also have nothing to say to us,’ and points in the direction of ideality. He says he does not deny that these things are excellent as a method, but what really matters is the soul.” [998W-{12/3/79} CD Vol. II, P. 408]
[999W-{12/25/79} Introduction to the Year 1880: PW Vol. VI, p. 34]
[P. 34] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Yet another Hope might quicken once more in me, if only I could see it stirring in the breasts of others. It comes not from without. Men of science persuade us that Copernicus reduced the ancient Church-belief to ruins with his planetary system, since it robbed God Almighty of his heavenly seat. (…) The god within the human breast, of whose transcendent being our great Mystics were so certain sure, that god who needs no heavenly-home demonstrable by science, has given the parsons more ado. For us Germans had he become our inmost own: but our Professors have done him many a harm … . Yet this approachless god of ours had begotten much within us, and when at last he had to vanish, he left us – in eternal memory of him – Music.” [999W-{12/25/79} Introduction to the Year 1880: PW Vol. VI, p. 34]
[1000W-{12/25/79} Introduction to the Year 1880: PW Vol. VI, p. 34-35]
[P. 34] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} Our Music he [“the Devil”] shall not thus deal with; for still it is the living god within our bosom. Let us guard it therefore, and ward off all profaning hands. For us it shall become no ‘literature’; in it resides our final hope of life itself.
{FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} There is something special in our German Music, ay, something divine. It makes its acolytes all martyrs, and instructs by them the heathen. (…) We alone know ‘Music’ as herself, and to us she gives the power of all regeneration and new-birth; but only while we hold her holy. Were we to lose the sense of genuineness in this one art, we had lost our last possession. May [P. 35] it therefore not mislead our friends, if precisely on this field, of
