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and
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and majestyof infinitedemands,of infinitesignifications, the
whole Romanticism and sublimityof moral questionableness
consequentlyjustthe most attractive, ensnaring,and
its eveningsky,now glows" perhapsglows out. For
this,we artists among the spectatorsand philosophers, are "
gratefulto the Jews.
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It must be taken into the bargain,if various clouds and
disturbances"
in short,slightattacks of
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stupiditypass over
the spiritof a peoplethat suffers and wants to suffer from
national nervous fever and political ambition:
among present-dayGermans there is alternately the
French
for instance,
exquisitelement in those iridescences and allurements to
life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture,
anti-
follyțhe anti-Semitic follyțhe anti-Polishfollyțhe
Christian-romantic follyțhe
Wagnerian follyțhe Teutonic
follyțhe Prussian folly(justlook at those poor historians,
the Sybels and Treitschkes,and their closelybandaged
heads),and whatever else these littleobscurations of the
German spiritand conscience may be called. May it be forgiven
me that I,too, when on a short daringsojournon very
infected ground,did not remain whollyexempt from the disease,
but like every one else,began to entertain thoughts
about matters which did not concern me
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of political infection. About
to
firstsymptom
the Jews, for instance,listen
the
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following: I have never yet met a German who was
favourablyinclined to the Jews; and however decided the
repudiationof actual anti-Semitism may be on the part of
all prudentand political men, this prudenceand policyis not
perhapsdirected againstthe nature of the sentiment itself,
but onlyagainstitsdangerousexcess, and especially against