it in the negative ‘world without end.’ Religion, too, could ease this craving by naught but allegoric myths and images, from which the Church then built that storeyed dogma whose collapse has become notorious. How these crumbling blocks were turned to the foundation of an art unknown to the ancient world, I have endeavoured to show in my preceding article on ‘Religion and Art’; of what import to the ‘Folk’ itself this art might become through its full emancipation from unseemly service, and upon the soil of a new moral order, we should set ourselves in earnest to discover. Here again our philosopher would lead us to a boundless outlook on the realm of possibilities, if we sought out all the wealth contained in the following pregnant sentences: -- ‘Complete contentment, the truly acceptable state, never present themselves to us but in an image, in the Artwork, the Poem, in Music. From which one surely might derive the confidence that somewhere they exist in sooth.’ (…) The perfect ‘likeness’ of the noblest artwork would so transport our heart, that we should plainly find the archetype, whose ‘somewhere’ must perforce reside within our inner self [* Translator’s Footnote: “Cf. Luke, xvii. 21: ‘Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.’ “] filled with time-less, space-less Love and Faith and Hope.
{FEUER} But not even the highest art can gain the force for such a revelation while it lacksthe support of a religious symbol of the most perfect moral ordering of the world, through which alone can it be truly understanded of the people … .” [1048W-{11/80}What Boots This Knowledge – First Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI, p. 260-261]
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[P. 564] “In the morning he talks to me about the present debate on the Jewish question … . He then goes on to discuss the present state of the stock exchange, saying that the power of the Jews could be dealt with only if all that ceased to be.(…) Now nothing can be done, R. says, but he himself would ban Jewish holidays, on which they will not sell merchandise to Christians, and also the boastful synagogues. ‘What then will be the significance of our feast days?’ “ [1049W-{11/30/80}CD Vol. II, p. 564]
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[P. 571] {FEUER} “ … ‘Yes,’ he exclaims, ‘we wander over the face of this earth like the gods in Valhalla and never think of all this night and horror beneath us.’ “ [1050W-{12/9/80}CD Vol. II, P. 571]
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[P. 571] “At supper he tells us that he had conceived all his works by the time he was 36, from then on he just carried them out.” [1051W-{12/9/80}CD Vol. II, P. 571]
[1052W-{12/9/80}CD Vol. II, p. 572]
[P. 572] “(A Jew, R. said, can only be demanding, greedy, cunning – if he were not those things, he would have to look very touching and worthy of pity. -- )” [1052W-{12/9/80}CD Vol. II, p. 572]
