[1108W-{11/24/81}CD Vol. II, p. 753]
[P. 753] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Today R. said he was convinced that modern scientific studies were making people completely heartless.” [1108W-{11/24/81}CD Vol. II, p. 753]
[1109W-{12/8/81}CD Vol. II, p. 764-765]
[P. 764] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “… when I tell him about an episode in Pisan [P. 765] history (the Battle of Meloria and its consequences), he says what happened there is just as in Nature, the same naïve cruelty, and so it was everywhere up to the moment which he calls Jesus; for a sensitive person, he says, the impulses of Nature are horrible!” [1109W-{12/8/81}CD Vol. II, p. 764-765]
[1110W-{12/12/81} CD Vol. II; P. 768]
[P. 768] {FEUER} “At supper he again became absorbed in reflections as to whether the sum of existence, which has already developed so nobly in some heads and even in some hearts, might not in fact have an ethical purpose, as has indeed been finely surmised. ‘Or are we really just here to eat grass? It’s possible.’ “ [1110W-{12/12/81} CD Vol. II; P. 768]
[1111W-{12/17/81} CD Vol. II, p. 771]
[P. 771] “ ‘But one thing is certain: races are done for, and all that can now make an impact is – as I have ventured to express it – the blood of Christ.’ “ [1111W-{12/17/81} CD Vol. II, p. 771]
[1112W-{12/18/81}CD Vol. II, p. 772-773]
[P. 772] “Then he tells me about a recent [P. 773] performance of ‘Nathan (Der Weise’) at which, when the line asserting that Christ was also a Jew was spoken, an Israelite in the audience cried ‘Bravo.’ He reproaches Lessing for this piece of insipidity, and when I reply that the play seems to me to contain a peculiarly German kind of humanity, he says, ‘But not a trace of profundity.’ … ‘One adds fuel to these fellows’ arrogance by having anything at all to do with them, and we, for example, do not talk of our feelings about those Jews in the theater in front of Rub., 400 unbaptized and probably 500 baptized ones.’ He makes a drastic joke to the effect that all Jews should be burned at a performance of ‘Nathan.’ “ [1112W-{12/18/81}CD Vol. II, p. 772-773]
[1113W-{12/18/81}CD Vol. II, p. 773]
[P. 773] “R: ‘Parsifal sees Tristan’ (in Amfortas), and, after another pause, ‘Something has come between them – the blood of Christ.’ “ [1113W-{12/18/81}CD Vol. II, p. 773]
[1114W-{1/8/82} CD Vol. II, p. 786]
[P. 786] {FEUER} “After a good night R. and I have breakfast in the conservatory, and he says, ‘It has occurred to me that we now seem to concern ourselves only with dead things; everything
