Excerpt from The Ethics of Wagner's the Ring of the Nibelung The question must often arise Did Wagner himself in truth mean all that we think he meant The answer to this must lie in the gen eral assertion that one who discovers a principle or announces a truth can hardly realize its every ramification and application of meaning save in a kind of prophetic vision. Did Franklin foresee the telegraph, the telephone, the graphophone? Moses, the prophets, Shakespeare, brought many truths to light, and yet was not their ...
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Excerpt from The Ethics of Wagner's the Ring of the Nibelung The question must often arise Did Wagner himself in truth mean all that we think he meant The answer to this must lie in the gen eral assertion that one who discovers a principle or announces a truth can hardly realize its every ramification and application of meaning save in a kind of prophetic vision. Did Franklin foresee the telegraph, the telephone, the graphophone? Moses, the prophets, Shakespeare, brought many truths to light, and yet was not their realization of these truths general rather than specific? However this may be, every meaning expou'nded in these pages is either expressed orto a period so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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