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Rh doubt other motives co-operated in leading Emerson to make the experiment, but I think that the one mentioned in the text was the underlying one.

undefined The connection which music may have with a man's deeper mood and attitude to life as a whole is shown in an avowal made by Schumann to Mendelssohn after hearing the latter play one of Bach's chorals: "Were life deprived of all trust, of all faith, this simple choral would restore all to me."

undefined Whether Wagner really held to the full Nietzschean (Schopenhauerian) view of the relation of words to music is open to question, but Nietzsche thought so at this time. Cf. The Birth of Tragedy, sect. 16; "Richard Wagner etc.," sects. 5, 8, 9; Genealogy of Morals, III, § 5.

undefined All this is important to bear in mind in connection with Nietzsche's later criticism of Wagner (particularly in "The Case of Wagner"), of which, for reasons of space, I shall not be able to give any detailed account.

undefined He wrote to Erwin Rohde, January 28, 1872, "I have closed an alliance with Wagner. You can have no idea how near we are now to one another, and how our plans fit together" (Briefe, II, 285).

undefined A "Culturgeschichte des griechischen Volkes," in which all his philological studies were to culminate. He returned to the idea in 1875, planning systematic courses of lectures to cover seven years. See Richter, op. cit., p. 57.

undefined Ziegler says that Nietzsche was ready to give up his professorship for this purpose (op. cit., p. 65; cf. Drews, op. cit., p. 159; Richter, op. cit., p. 58 n.), and Drews adds that he had some idea of founding a new kind of educational institution (op. cit., pp. 45-6). We find him speaking in "We Philologists" of establishing a great center for the production of better men as the task of the future, and of educating the educators for such work—although the first ones must educate themselves, and it was for these he wrote (Werke, X, 415-9). Cf. Ernst Weber, Die pädagogishen Gedanken des jungen Nietzsche, im Zusammenhang mit seiner Welt- und Lebens-Anschauung.

undefined The offense given to purely philological circles by The Birth of Tragedy found marked expression in Wilamowitz-Möllendorf's Zukunftsphilologie, Eine Erwiderung auf Friedrich Nietzsches Geburt der Tragödie. To this Erwin Rohde replied with another brochure, Afterphilologie, Bendschreiben eines Philologen an Richard Wagner—Wagner having come to the defense of Nietzsche in a public letter. See the summary of the controversy in Richter, op. cit., pp. 43-4.

undefined This, however, was not printed at the time, being regarded by Wagner circles as not sufficiently diplomatic (see Briefe, IIa, 217 ff., where it is given, and Richter, op. cit., p. 43).

undefined Nietzsche had complained, Easter, 1873, that the Germans were not subscribing to the Bayreuth project, and to the question Why? he answered that the educated Philistine (Bildungs-Philister) had become contented, and had lost the sense for what was great. Strauss was a typical representative of the new state of mind, and this was the principal reason for the attack on him. See Werke (pocket ed.), II, xxxii-iii.

undefined Paul Elmer More disposes of the break—"quarrel," as he terms it—very simply: it was at bottom due to "the clashing of two insanely jealous egotisms" (Nietzsche, p. 75).

undefined It is possible, even probable, that Nietzsche was unjust to Wagner in this interpretation; see Richter's admirable account of the whole matter, op. cit., p. 52 flf.; also Drews' discriminations, op. cit., p. 188 ff.