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And The Ring, a prophecy, a a synthesis of all notably, was at once a history of Germany Germany. Wagner had achieved program the arts, and the arts were obviously all of life for worth having. Wagner was therefore the supreme philosopher, law-giver, prophet. in which cast, his whole life, He teacher, was, in the aesthetic like his tam-o'-shantered frame costume, was the Master; but he might just as well have been the Fuehrer. book grew directly out of this association with Wagner. It was an association at first unquestionably based on mutual liking and respect, though also from the first Nietzsche's first mixed naturally and profitably with a mutual desire to exploit the partner in the relationship.

The The 12 Birth of Tragedy, chap. xxiv. Birth of Tragedy, chaps, xxiv and xxv. is "the eternal THE PROFESSOR There seems however, a joker in this pack of fine words. Wagner But Dionysos is clearly not enough: cast for Dionysos. we man If is is, 41 could conceive of an incarnation of dissonance illusion to cover its and what else dissonance would need a glorious might features with a veil of beauty. This is the true artistic then, that live, this it function of Apollo, in whose name we include all the countless manifestations of the fair realm of illusion, which at each moment render life in general worth living and impel one to the experience of the next moment.

ISaiwv 22 THE STUDENT Yet it is clear from these notes seen as a 19 whole that Nietzsche and a curious worker, that he kept asking himself questions about his Greeks that went far beyond mere cataloguing. His most finished work in the field, DC Lacrtii Di- was a careful ogcnis jontibuSy was printed in the Rheinischcs Philologic in 1868 and 1869, fur and gave the twenty-four year old scholar a European reputation More important Museum in the long among professional philologists. run for Nietzsche's career was discovery of Schopenhauer's philosophy.