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master; small and great expediencies and
elaborations, per
meated with the musty odour of old familymedicines and
old-wife wisdom; all of them grotesqueand absurd in their
form "
theyaddress themselves to "all," because they
generalise where
generalisation
not
authorised; all of them
speakingunconditionally, and takingthemselves unconditionally;
all of them flavoured not merely with one grainof
salt,but rather endurable only,and sometimes even seduc
tive,when theyare over-spiced and
beginto smell dangerously,
especially of "the other world." That is all of littlevalue
Vt^henestimated
intellectually, and is far from being"science,"
much less "wisdom"; but,repeatedonce more, and three
times repeated,it is expediency,expediency,expediency,
mixed with "
stupidity, stupidity, stupiditywhether it be thfi
indifference and statuesquecoldness towards the heated folly
of the emotions,which the Stoics advised and fostered;or
the no-more-laughing and no-more-weepingof Spinoza țhe
destruction of the emotions by their analysisand vivisection,
which he recommended so naively;or the loweringof the
emotions to an innocent mean at which theymay be satisfied,
the Aristotelianism of morals; or even moralityas the en
joyment of the emotions in a voluntaryattenuation and
spiritualisation by the symbolism of art,perhapsas music,
or as love of God, and of mankind for God's sake "
in
. . .
religionthe passionsare once more enfranchised, provided
that ; or, finally, even the complaisantand wanton
surrender to the emotions,as has been taughtby Hafis and
Goethe,the bold letting-go of the reinsțhe spiritual and
corporeallicentia morum in the exceptional cases of wise
old codgersand drunkards,with whom it "no longerhas
much
"
danger." This
Timidity."
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