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102 are the nobler natures; artists are effeminate in comparison —and he puts himself out of their category, saying that they "find us non-artists a little too sober." Poetry and music alike receive slighting comments. Poets are not worth as much as they seem to be: they throw a veil over ideas, and we have to pay for the veil and for our curiosity to get behind it. Their thoughts often use a festive wagon of rhythm, because of inability to go afoot. He doubts whether it is expedient for philosophers to quote from them, citing Homer's dictum, "Singers lie much." He suggests that poetry may have had a utilitarian and even superstitious origin—rhythm, like musical melody and the dance, being among primitive peoples a way of pleasing the Gods. As for music, he systematically forbade himself for a time all music of a romantic sort, thinking that it begot too many desires and longings, made the mind unclear, feminized, its "eternal feminine" drawing us—down! undefined He has even occasional sarcasm for the genius. A thinker who takes himself in this way may, by begetting distrust in the cautious and sober ways of science, be an enemy to truth —Nietzsche lays stress, as he never has before, on talents and industry. undefined If ever he speaks of "genius" admiringly, he begs us to remember that we must keep the term free of all mythological and mystical associations." The danger is that surrounded by incense, the genius begins to think himself something superhuman; he develops feelings of irresponsibility, of exceptional rights and superiority to criticism." Nietzsche mentions Napoleon in this connection; but the man who is principally in his mind is undoubtedly Wagner. Professor Riehl asserts that wherever the word "artist" occurs in Human, All-too-Human, Nietzsche had first written "Wagner." In fact he contemplated a new book on Wagner—one that would in a way expiate his former laudation (for he felt that he had led many astray); and now that Wagner was victorious, he could criticise him without violating his rules of literary