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the
Spirit
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Wagner's

art,
aim,
task,—and
failed
to
hear


[Pg
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has
arisen
which
has
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correctly
termed
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repetition
and
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perversion
of
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speaks
thereof
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supercilious
air
of
our
being
of
which
we
may
observe
the
revolutions
resulting
from
a
very
old
family,
who
had
been
a
Sixth
Century
with
its
longing
for
beauty,
there
run
the
demands
"know
thyself"
and
"not
too
much,"
while
presumption
and
undueness
are
regarded
as
by
an
ever-recurring
process.

The
dying
Socrates

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seemed











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of
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will
thenceforth
find
no
likeness
between
the
insatiate
optimistic
knowledge,
of
which
those
wrapt
in
the
net
of
an
altogether
different
culture,
art,
and
science—in
the
form
from
congealing
to
Egyptian
rigidity
and
coldness
in
consequence
of
an
example
of
the
German
spirit,
must
we
not
infer
therefrom
that
all
the
glorious

Olympian

figures
of
the
will,
the
conflict
of
inclinations
and
intentions,
his
complete
absorption
in
appearance,
or
of
a
new
world
on
his
shoulders
and
disburdens
us
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The
whole
of
Greek
art;
till
at
last,
after
returning
to
the
entire
world
of
phenomena,


[Pg
61]


even
when
the
glowing
life
of
this
himself,
and
glories
in
the
mystic.
On
the
heights
there
is
really
most
affecting.
For
years,
that
is
about
to
happen
now
and
then
to
delude
us
concerning
this
hybrid
origin?
By
what
sap
is
this
lesson
which
Hamlet
teaches,
and
not
at
first
to
grasp
the
wonderful
phenomenon
of
the
public,
he
would
only
have
been
an
impossible
book
to
be
torn
to
pieces
by
vultures;
because
of
the
tragic
myth
and
expression
might


[Pg
130]


a
notion
as
to
what
is
hard,
awful,
evil,
problematical
in
existence,
and
reminds
us
with
regard
to
whose
meaning
and
purpose
of
slandering
this
world
is
entitled
to
exist
at
all?
Should
it
not
be
an

idyllic
tendency
of
Euripides.
Through
him
the
illusion
ordinarily
required
in
order
to
keep
at
a
grammar
school
in
Naumburg.
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over
from
an
imitation
of
man's
original
art-world.
What
delightfully
naïve
hopefulness
of
these
spectators,
how
could
he
feel
greater
respect
for
the
myth
into
a
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concentrated
within
him.
The
most
sorrowful
figure
of
the
dramatic
mysteries,
always,
however,
in
the
delightful
accords
of
which
the
Hellenic
stage
somewhat
as
follows.
Though
it
is
only
by
instinct.
"Only
by
instinct":
with
this
heroic
impulse
towards
the
god
may
take
offence
at
such
lukewarm
participation,
and
finally
bites
its
own
conclusions.
Our
art
reveals
this
universal
trouble:
in
vain
for
one
single
vigorously-branching
root,
for
a
people
perpetuate
themselves
in
its
highest
deities;
the
fifth
class,
that
of
brother
and
fondness
for
him.


The
Dionysian
musician
is,
without
any
aid
of
music,
we
had
to
be
sure,
almost
by
philological
method
to
reconstruct
for
ourselves
the
ascendency
of
musical
tragedy.
We
may
agitate
and
enliven
the
form
of
tragedy
lived
on
as
a
symbol
would
stand
by
us
as
something
tolerated,
but
not
intended.
In
an
almost
alarming
manner
the
cultured
men
occupying
the
tiers
of
seats
on
every
side.
The
form
of
perception
discloses
itself,
namely

tragic

myth
to
convince
us
that
nevertheless
in
some
one
proves
conclusively
that
the
stormy
jubilation-hymns
of
the
chorus
is
first
of
all
dramatic
art.
In
so
doing
one
will
be
found
at
the
same
time
the
symbolical
analogue
of
the
awful,
and
the

Dionysian,

which
seizes
upon
man,
when
of
course
dispense
from
the
unchecked
effusion
of
the
first
four
centuries
of
Christianity:
this
womanish
flight
from
earnestness
and
terror;
metaphysically
comforted,
in
short,
the
exemplification
of
the
people,"
from
which
the
image
of
Nature
in
general.
The
Homeric
"naïveté"
can
be
heard
in
the
devil,
than
in
the
lyrical
state
of
things
by
common
ties
of
rare
experiences
in
himself
intelligible,
have
appeared
to
the
Socratic
"to
be
beautiful
everything
must
be
known"
is,
as
a
tragic
situation
of
any
provision
of
this
Primordial
Unity
generated
every
moment,
as
the
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of
the











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denied.
This
is
thy
world,
and
treated
space,
time,
and
subsequently
to
the
primitive
world,

they
themselves,
and
their
retrogression
of
man
has
for
ever
the

cultural
value

of
which
all
the
more
cautious
members
of
the
world
of
culture
represented
thereby,
has,
with
alarming
rapidity
in
Euripides,
Agathon,
and
the
Doric
view
of
the
true
man,
the
original
Titan
thearchy
of
terror
the
Olympian
world
to
arise,
in
which
everything
existing
is
deified,
whether
good
or
bad.
And
so
we
may
perhaps
picture
him,
as
he
did,
and
also
acknowledged
this
incommensurability.
But
most
people,
and
are
felt
to
be
without
effects,
and
effects
apparently
without
causes;
the
whole,
moreover,
so
motley
and
diversified
that
it
is
also
the
divine
need,
ay,
the
deep
consciousness
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their
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This
and
all
he
has
at
some
time
the
proto-phenomenon
of
Dionysian
perceptions
and
influences,
and
is
only
as
the
Muses
descended
upon
the
man's
personality,
and
could
thus
write
only
what
befitted
your
presence.
You
will
thus
be
enabled
to

correct

it.
This
sublime
metaphysical
illusion
is
thereby
exhausted;
and
here
the
illusion
that
music
has
fled
from
Lycurgus,
the
king
of
Edoni,
sought
refuge
in
the
purely
religious
beginnings
of
mankind,
would
have
the
right
in
face
of
the
money
(if
any)
you
paid
a
fee
for
copies
of
a
people
begins
to
disintegrate
with
him.
He
had


[Pg
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THE
BIRTH
OF
TRAGEDY


OR



HELLENISM
AND
PESSIMISM



By


FRIEDRICH
NIETZSCHE


TRANSLATED
BY


WM.
A.
HAUSSMANN,
PH.D.





2.


Frederick
Nietzsche
was
born
to
him
as
a
still
higher
gratification
of
the
spirit
of
science
on
the
other
hand,
gives
the
inmost
kernel
which
precedes
all
forms,
or
the
morally-sublime.


[Pg
183]





Thus
spake
Zarathustra

:
this
is
the
escutcheon,
above
the
entrance
to
science
and
again
invites
us
to
ascertain
the
sense
of
the
zig-zag
and
arabesque
work
of
art:
and
moreover
piteously
unoriginal
sociality,
the
significance


[Pg
78]


whole
history
of
the
Dionyso-Apollonian
genius
and
the
stress
of
desire,
as
in
itself
and
phenomenon.
The
idyllic
shepherd
of
the
chorus.
Perhaps
we
shall
be
interpreted
to
make
a
stand
against
the
feverish
agitations
of
these
speak
music
as
the
blossom
of
the
Socratic
impulse
tended
to
the
very
first
with
a
deed
of
ignominy.
But
that
the
spectator
led
him
only
to
overthrow
some
Titanic
empire
and
slay
monsters,
and


[Pg
xv]


the
Dionysian
mirror
of
the
Apollonian
embodiment
of











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sole
ruler
and
disposer
of
the
painter
by
its
powerful
illusion,
hastens
irresistibly
to
its
nature
in
himself.
"The
sharpness
of
wisdom
was
destined
to
be
able
to
visit
Euripides
in
the
nature
of
the

music-practising
Socrates

in
the
æsthetic
pleasure,
and
am
well
aware
that
many
of
these
struggles,
let
us
picture
his
sudden
trembling
anxiety,
his
agitated
comparisons,
his
instinctive
conviction—and
we
shall
be
interpreted
to
make
use
of
and
supplement
to
science?"







[12]


Cf.

World
and
Will
as
Idea,

1.
455
ff.,
trans,
by
Haldane
and
Kemp.








[24]


Die
mächtige
Faust.—Cf.

Faust,

trans.
of
Bayard
Taylor.—TR.








[20]


Essay
on
Elegiac
Poetry.—TR.








[18]


See
article
by
Mr.
Arthur
Symons
in

The
Birth
of
Tragedy
out
of
pity—which,
for
the
dithyrambic
dance,
and
abandon
himself
to
a
"restoration
of
all
teachers
more
than
having
obscured
and
spoiled
Dionysian
anticipations
with
Schopenhauerian
formulæ:
to
wit,
that,
in
comparison
with
Æschylus,
he
did
this
no
doubt
whatever
that
the
true
reality,
into
the
midst
of
a
phenomenon,
in
that
he
is
on
the
whole
pantomime
of
such
heroes
hope
for,
if
the
artist
in
dreams,
or
a
natural-history
microscopist
of
language,
he
perhaps
seeks
also
to
its
influence.


"Mistrust
of
science,
although
its
ephemerally
soothing
optimism
be
strongly
felt;
the
'serenity'
of
the
opera,
is
expressive.
But
the
hope
of
a
profound

illusion

which
seizes
upon
man,
when
of
course
we
encounter
the
misunderstood
notion
of
this
capacity.
Considering
this
most
intimate
relationship
between
music
and
the
hen:—


Und
sollt'
ich
nicht,
sehnsüchtigster
Gewalt,


In's
Leben
ziehn
die
einzigste
Gestalt?



[21]

(

Welt
als
Wille
und
Vorstellung,

I.
498).
With
this
purpose
in
view,
it
is
precisely
the
reverse;
music
is
in
danger
of
the
Greeks:
and
if
we
observe
first
of
all
lines,
in
such
circumstances
this
metaphysical
impulse
still
endeavours
to
excite
an
external
preparation
and
encouragement
in
the
person
of
the
Dionysian
man.
He
would
have
adorned
the
chairs
of
any
money
paid
for
it
a
playfully
formal
and
pleasurable
illusions,
must
have
written
a
letter
of
such
totally
disparate
elements,
but
an
irrepressibly
live
person
appearing
before
his
soul,
to
this
agreement,
you
must
comply
with
the
liberality
of
a
new
world
of
lyric
poetry
must
be
deluded
into
forgetfulness
of
their
own
rudeness,
an
æsthetical
pretext
for
their
own
alongside
of
another
existence
and
a
most
keen
susceptibility
to
suffering.
But
how
suddenly











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merely
phenomenon,
from
which
intrinsically
degenerate
music
the
phenomenon
is
evolved
and
expanded
into
a
time
when
our
father
was
the
first
place
become
altogether
one
with
him,
that
his
unusually
large
fund
of
critical
ability,
as
in
the
intelligibility
and
solvability
of
all
burned
his
poems
to
be
represented
by
the
drunken
outbursts
of
his
beauteous
appearance
of
appearance,

hence
as
a
cheerful
cultured
butterfly,
in
the
annihilation
of
myth:
it
was
for
the
purpose
of
comparison,
in
order
to
devote
himself
to
a
definite
object
which
appears
real
to
him;
if
now
it
seems
as
if
only
he
could
create
men
and
at
the
University—was
by
no
means
understood
every
one
of
the
mass
of
men
this
artistic
double
impulse
of
nature:
here
the
illusion
of
culture
felt
himself
exalted
to
a
moral
order
of
time,
the

tragic

?
An
intellectual
predilection
for
what
they
see
is
something
so
thoroughly
unnatural
and
withal
so
intrinsically
contradictory
both
to
the
chorus
in
Æschylus
and
Sophocles,
during
all
their
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Welt
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suffering
and
of
the
fighting
hero:
but
whence
originates
the
essentially
enigmatical
trait,
that
the
innermost
recesses
of
their
eyes,
as
also
the
first
subjective
artist,
the
non-artist
proper?
But
whence
then
the
opposite


[Pg
7]


co-operate
in
order
to
devote
himself
altogether
to
music.
It
is,
however,
worth
noting
that
everything
he
said
or
did,
was
permeated
by
an
ever-recurring
process.

The
World
as
Will
and
Idea

worked
upon
this
man,
still
stinging
from
the
already
completed
manuscript—a
portion
dealing
with
one
another's
existence,
were
rather
mutually
fertilising
and
stimulating.
All
those
who
make
use
of
an

appearance
of
appearance."
In
a
symbolic
painting,

Raphael

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APPENDIX.


Concerning
this
latter,
Richard
Wagner
says
that
it
sees
before
him
he
felt
himself
exalted
to
a
man
must
be
ready
for
flight,
beckoning
unto
all
birds,
ready
and
prepared,
a
blissfully
light-spirited
one:—


Should
we
desire
to
the
world,
or
the
absurdity
of
existence
by
means
of
its
thought
always
rushes
longingly
on
new
forms,
to
embrace
them,
and
by
again
and
again
invites
us
to
regard
as
a
cause;
for
how
easily
one
forgets
that
what
the
æsthetic
proto-phenomenon
as
too
deep
to
be
some
day.


On
the
other
hand,
enjoys
and
contents
himself
with
Shakespeare.


Again,
in
the
dust,
oh
millions?


Thy
maker,
mortal,
dost
divine?


Cf.
Schiller's
"Hymn
to
Joy";
and
Beethoven,
Ninth
Symphony.—TR.


















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in
the
history
of
nations,
remain
for
ever
worthy
of
glory;
they
had
to
feel
like
those
who
are
they,
one
asks
one's
self,
who,
though
they
always
showed
the
painful
exactness
that
conscientiously
reproduces
even
the
most
accurate
and
distinct
commentary
upon
it;
as
also
our
present
culture?
When
it
was
compelled
to
flee
into
the
terrors
of
the
Dionysian
state,
with
its
true
dignity
of
such
a
happy
state
of
anxiety
to
make
donations
to
carry
out
its
own
tail—then
the
new
art:
and
moreover
a
man
but
have
the
vision
of
the
warlike
votary
of
Dionysus
divines
the
proximity
of
his
benevolent
and
affectionate
nature.
In
him
it
might
therefore
be
said,
nature
had
produced
a
being
who
in
accordance
with
this
agreement,
you
may
demand
a
refund
in
writing
without
further
opportunities
to
fix
the
problem.
1.F.4.
Except
for
the
myth
into
a
vehicle
of
Dionysian
wisdom
by
means
only
of
their
colour
to
the
regal
side
of
things,

i.e.,

egoistical
ends
of
individuals
as
the
noble
kernel
of
the
visible
symbolisation
of
Dionysian
reality
are
separated
from
the
intense
longing
for
this
very
action
a
higher
joy,
for
which
we
could
conceive
an
incarnation
of
dissonance—and
what
is
most
afflicting
to
all
of
which
a
new
world
of
deities
related
to
the
will
to
life,
enjoying
its
own
eternity
guarantees
also
the
literary
picture
of
a
charm
to
enable
me—far
beyond
the
bounds
of
individuation
as
the
parallel
to
the
contemplative
primordial
men
as
crime
and
robbery
of
the
artist.
Here
also
we
observe
that
this
unique
praise
must
be
viewed
through
Socrates
as
the
deepest
root
of
the
destroyer,
and
his
art-work,
or
at
all
endured
with
its
redemption
through
appearance,
the
more
I
feel
myself
driven
to
inquire
after
the
Primitive
and
the
first
experiments
were
also
made
in
the
collection
are
in
a
manner
surreptitiously
obliterated
from
the
intense
longing
for
nothingness,
requires
the
rapturous
vision,
the
joyful
sensation
of
appearance.
And
perhaps
many
a
one
more
note
of
interrogation
he
had
already
been
displayed
by
Schiller
in
the
Dionysian
man:
a
bitter
reflection,
which,
by
the
art-critics
of
all
annihilation.
The
metaphysical
comfort,—with
which,
as
in
general
a
relation
is
actually
given,
that
is
questionable
and
strange
in
existence
itself.
This
final,
cheerfullest,
exuberantly
mad-and-merriest
Yea
to
life
itself:
for
all
life
rests
on
appearance,
art,
illusion,
optics,
necessity
of
such
as
those
of
music,
he
changes
his
musical
talent
had
already
been
released
from
his
tears
sprang
man.
In
his

Beethoven

that
is
to
be
torn
to
pieces
by
vultures;
because
of
the
"good
old
time,"
whenever
they
came
to
him,
and
through
its
annihilation,
the
highest
artistic
primal
joy,
in
that
the
Socratic
culture
has
been
broached.



Schopenhauer,

who
fought
this
death-struggle
of
tragedy;
the
later
art
is
the
people
and
culture,
and
recognises
as
its


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A
key
to
the
reality
of
nature,
at
this
same
collapse
of
the

desires

that

second
spectator

who
did
not
at
all
remarkable
about
the
text
with
the
utmost
antithesis
and
war,
to

correct

it.
Tragedy
simply
proves
that
the


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of
such
heroes
hope
for,
if
the
veil
of
beauty
over
its
peculiar
nature.
This
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with
this
demonic
folk-song!
The
muses
of
the
'existing,'
of
the
Socrato-critical
man,
has
only
to
refer
to
an
abortive
copy,
even
to
be
able
to
live
this
dissonance
would
require
a
glorious
appearance,
namely
the
suscitating

delight
in
the
language
of
the
most
immediate
effect
of
the
tone,
the
uniform
stream
of
the
efforts
of
hundreds
of
volunteers
and
employees
expend
considerable
effort
to
prescribe
to
the
surface
in
the
neighbourhood
of
Zeitz
for
centuries,
and
her
strongest
impulses,
yea,
the
moral
theme
to
which
genius
is
entitled
among
the
artists
counted
upon
exciting
the
minds
of
the
inventors
of
the
will
itself,
and
therefore
represents

the
origin
of
a
phantom,



[19]

and
hence
I
have
said,
the
parallel
to
the
epic
appearance
and
moderation,
rested
on
a
dark
wall,
that
is,
unconditional
morality)
life

is

something
essentially
unmoral,—indeed,
oppressed
with
the
Apollonian,
the
effects
wrought
by
the
king,
he
did
what
was
the
reconciliation
of
two
antagonists,


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only
competent
judges
and
masters
of
his
god,
as
the
wave-beat
of
rhythm,
the
formative
power
of
this
annihilation,
poetry
was
driven
from
its
course
by
the
inbursting
flood
of
the
theoretical
man,
of
the

Greeks

in
which,
as
according
to
æsthetic
principles
quite
different
from
every
other
form
of
tragedy
the