consequently the highest organism cannot but recognise itself and all its works as founded on the Will’s most brutal of manifestations. Even the flower of the Grecian spirit was rooted to the conditions of this complex existence, which has for base a ball of earth revolving after laws immutable, with all its swarm of lives the rawer and more inexorable, the deeper the scale descends. {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} As manhood’s fairest dream that flower filled the world for long with its illusive fragrance, though to none but minds set free from the Will’s sore want was it granted to bathe therein; and what but a mummery at last could such delight well be, when we find that blood and massacre, untamed and ever slipped afresh, still rage throughout the human race; that violence is master, and freedom of mind seems only buyable at price of serfdom of the world? But a heartless mummery must the concernment with Art ever be, and all enjoyment of the freedom thereby sought from the Will’s distress, so long as nothing more was to be found in art … .” [1029W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 229-230]
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[P. 230] {anti-FEUER} On the other hand, it was folly to think that violence could berestrained by howsoever prudent steps of violence. Even [P. 231] that world-truce was based on the Right of the Stronger, and never, since the human race first fell a-hungering for bloody spoil, has it ceased to found its claim to tenure and enjoyment on that same ‘right’ alone. To the art-creative Greek, no less than the rudest Barbarian, it was the one sole law that shaped the world.” [1030W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 230-231]
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[P. 232] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “Called to upheave a State built-up on violence andrapine, the Church must deem her surest means the attainment of dominion over states and empires, in accordance with all the spirit of History. To subject decaying races to herself she needed the help of terror; and the singular circumstance that Christianity might be regarded as sprung from Judaism, placed the requisite bugbear in her hands. The tribal God of a petty nation had promised his people eventual rulership of the whole world and all that lives and moves therein, if only they adhered to laws whose strictest following would keep them barred against all other nations of the earth. Despised and hated equally by every race in answer to this segregation, without inherent productivity and only battening on the general downfall, in course of violent revolutions this folk would very probably have been extinguished as completely as the greatest and noblest stems before them … . But the Jews, so it seems, could fling away all share in this world-rulership of their Jehova, for they had won a share in a development of the Christian religion well fitted to deliver it itself into their hands in time, with all its increment of culture, sovereignty and civilisation. The departure-point of all this strange exploit lay ready in the historical fact – that Jesus of Nazareth was born in a corner of their little [P. 233] land, Judaea.” [1031W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 232-233]
