This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...For, to us, with all its drawbacks, it is a lovely world and life. What race finds so much delight in it as ours? The other tribes do not know what it is to us. They rest, and they house-keep, and make money, and have, of course, their lesser griefs and gladnesses, and stare at us, and deem us more or less mad ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...For, to us, with all its drawbacks, it is a lovely world and life. What race finds so much delight in it as ours? The other tribes do not know what it is to us. They rest, and they house-keep, and make money, and have, of course, their lesser griefs and gladnesses, and stare at us, and deem us more or less mad, tho', very often, not a bad sort of folk in our way. Because we treat them much more kindly and VOL. I. L considerately than they treat us. They torture and hamper us, and jar our souls, without knowing what they are about; but we spare them, and serve them, and do our best for them, and only wish to be away from them and among ourselves. But I would we knew ' whither we are wending ' (to quote the familiar church song). That the world into which we are wending is not a ' Stille Land ' I am convinced--but oh, that one knew! If it be not a land of action and of bliss for the Spirit, then, for goodness sake, let us eat, drink and be merry in this, which we know something about. But all those glorious intelligences which we know (in a degree) as we do ourselves, never can merely ' go out' as Leibgeber calls it. You think, do you not, that of all the Arts ours is the most like a clear proof of this? The musician's creations live after his death in a peculiar manner which no other artist's do. A picture rots, a statue crumbles to dust. A work of Bach's is just as much alive as a work of Wagner's; and no more, nor less alive now than when he was alive himself. It exists for us on paper, and in performance; two kinds of existence, differing in degree perhaps, but the one quite as real as the other. At all times the essence of it is the Spirit. An orchestra of equal excellence, which should render a symphony of, say, Herz (if there were such a...
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