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THE
QUINTESSENCE
OF
IBSENISM:
G.
BERNARD
LONDON:
24
BY
WARWICK
SHAW.
WALTER
SCOTT
LANE.
1891
CONTENTiS.
PREFACE.
the
IN
finding
to
itself at
its
occupy
to
make
forward
the
Essayists,
for the
in the
end
Zola";
Hubert
most
day,
of
the
failure
of
which
read
on
to
came
Russian
the
but
the
summer
also
to
to
without
so
having
most
Society
to
close
to
asked
but
Stepniak
lecture
added
and
amusing
Morris,
having
take
desperate
the
the
the
"
Socialist
all the
read
; but
Ibsen";
flatly declined,
with
fiction ; and
without
consented
in
or
something
heads
Architecture.
rescue
Fabian
their
William
himself,
Socialism
"
do
enterprise
resulted
Gothic
the
"
The
"take
to
an
series.
on
paper
one
Olivier
put
papers
heading
to
compelled
was
series of
shook
undertook
novels
of
part
consented
Bland
paper
with
pressed
Sydney
of lectures
course
Literature."
strongly
other,"
meetings,
general
Contemporary
in
us
summer
shift
under
loss for
Society,
Fabian
the
1890,
of
spring
on
gave
also
modern
tided
over
its doors,
anything
what-
Preface.
vi
to
ever
the
general
Socialism
in Contemporary
I cannot
claim
was
duly
the
Mrs
Annie
sense
July
little book,
being
of
the
impulse
its present
to
d'occasion
of
by
Independent
the
the
Miss
defend
as
his
to
view
what
face
to
Ibsen's
to
no
make
plays
face
of the
Grein
with
with
created
Miss
Lea
newspaper
sign
been
ever
the
Vaudeville
and
see
piece
when
frantic
I could
I had,
as
arose
a
sensation
Robins
having
as
the
J. T.
the
and
started
in which
disputants
definitely
Mr
of Miss
that
inauguration
the
by
ance
import-
much
aside
at
in
curious
its turn,
served
Farr,
Gabler,
circumstances,
it
(of
terms
debate
Rosinershohn
experiment
controversy,
of
had
of Ghosts,
Hedda
with
laid
had
internal
purposely
the
attach
lively
Theatre
performance
by
not
the
spontaneous
Havdng
found
somewhat
which
production
by
be
of
in
work
provocative
I did
of
on
first form
the
original
part.
state),
the
Theatre
an
most
may
it ; and
upon
my
the
traces
which
presidency
result
on
it in
couched
the
was
this
which
Restaurant
which
is
After
James's
under
and
on
Ibsen,
on
paper
St
1890,
Besant,
Literature.
my
the
at
read
8th
this
of
that
information
of
stock
forced
up
meant,
some
of
his
any
by
mind
and
to
of the
Preface.
to
fact
the
this
(see
that
the
depends
means
intellectual
the
in
thesis
the
on
they
were
into
that
and
the
that
beauties
what
London,
explanation
Ibsenism,
they
/zm^
can
1891.
of
in
it is not
of
Ibsen,
I offer
of.
his
the
abusive
or
to
could
worshipping
what
going
the
as
might
origin
own
hero
for,
conclusion
well
be
of
no
rate,
clear
came
by
any
the
or
better
the
also
and
work
made
and
have
At
it.
means
enjoyed
of
apologizing
account
reminder
poetic
no
field until
this
of
make
my
in the
With
about
poet's
stage,
or
abusing,
ecstasies
placed
by
whether
apologetic
stage,
of
consciousness
the
or
but
completeness
controversialists,
stage,
not
weight
discoverable
of
due
has
56) ;
page
existence
definite
perfectly
himself
Ibsen
that
advantage
shewn
I allow
in London.
debaters
keenest
vii
found.
book,
the
critical essay
but
simply
it to
the
be
an
public
on
exposition
to
THE
QUINTESSENCE
OF
IBSEN
ISM.
I.
THE
The
whose
wrong
to
any
second,
is the
do
that
do
are
eyes
place,
to
declares
has
one
no
that
it is
hitherto
in.
first, whose
usual
the plains
in the back
are
eyes
who
something
harm
it is right
man
to
march
(so to speak).
head,
in the
of the
of heaven
of his
The
PIONEERS.
is, pioneers
THAT
seen
TWO
is the
man
longsighted
very
declares
who
hitherto
something
regarded
and
that
as
infamous.
The
second
the
army.
him
the
is treated
They
Good
give
Man
by
great
respect
with
him
testimonials
; name
and
hate
him
like
the
by
the
devil.
The
whole
first is stoned
army.
names
They
and
call him
; grudge
him
A
shrieked
all
his
manner
bare
at
of opprobrious
bread
and
Qiiintesse7ice
of Ibsenism.
Tlie
2
.
from
take
me
their
as
was
pioneer
second
the
compare
saviour
life of
and
nothing
pioneer's
effect
by
second
pioneer
he produced
indulgence
as
which
first pioneer.
For example
:
with
preacher
"
Pioneer
Second
kill animals
to
to
wrong
Here
take
the
the
Any
pioneer
and
is it to
declare
the
in
it's in
one
is, not
believed,
else,
so
persuaded
guilty
than
but
guilty
that
any
that
right
that
society
apparently
than
conscience,
move
least
provided
more
the
as
he
that
believe
cannot
can
So
detective,
Just
the
apparently
any
life.
guilty
probable
he
gentle
wrong
with
in
not
unnatural
family
direction."
wrong
liar's punishment
an
Dickens's
to
is
move
a
society
as
which,
possible
is not
as
as
morals
is
wife.
appears
first
the
It
your
public
right
to
as
sister
your
and
easier
wrong
Proposition."
second
of
corrupter
It is wrong
"
them.
eat
and
humanitarian,
much
Proposition.
Pioneer
First
"
else
Shelley
that
or
my
work.
produced
or
preacher
abstinence
from
example
first and
both
Now
as
an
Shelley
pioneer.
did
him
adore
despair.
utter
Let
he
secretly
and
water;
any
easily
innocent
guilty
be
is
act
is
act
innocent.
The
the
English
guilty
newspaper
conscience
which
of
the
best
middle
represents
class,
or
Tivo
The
Pioneers.
3
,
in
factor
dominant
If
Telegraph.
speaking
of Ibsen
to
of Shelley,
speak
that there
Daily
Scott,
Telegraph,
a
to
the
gentleman,
natured
impressionable,
Ibsen
amateurishness,
coarseness,
dramatic
of
nastiness,
uninterest
absurdity,
ing
declarand
suburbanity,
verbosity,
have
has
he
ideas
taken
that
would
inspired
horrible
This
the
of
England,
is to be
the
March
14th
leading
drain,
done
its doors
and
loathsome,
which
occurs
in
first performance
of
Ghosts
in
found
Telegraph
for
in the Daily
is supplemented
and
publicly,
windows
the
or
by
to
play
a
an
unbandaged,
lazar
house
with
Bestial,
open.
all
cynical,
poisonous,
clinical
confessions
in
article
Realism,"
vulgarized
loathsome,
hateful,
dull,
compares
which
loathsome
sore
act
and
poet,
criticism,
1891,
article
disgusting,
in
them
plays.
notice
tragic
great
debased
the
accuses
egotism,
that
"
once
at
critic
emotional,
ludicrous
vulgarity,
dirty
us
used
first pioneer
of the
dramatic
good
sincere,
and
impotence,
open
but
pioneer,
zealous,
to
occur
be something
must
Clement
Mr
and
it will
Telegraph
Review
Quarterly
the
as
Daily
the
Ibsen.
about
not
find
can
we
Daily
is the
to-day,
society
says
as
all these
epithets
descriptive
the
writer,
Ibsen's
of
"
is
are
one
thing
used
work.
;
but
The
the
nostrils
of
before
held
words
of
the
"
this
took
the
be
can
play
difficult
on
and
the
evening
criticism
indecorum
Ghosts
of
the
next
to
decorous
performance
appeared
true
in
putrid
of
visibly
as
expose
almost
the
be
not
stamped
to
As
play."
must
audience
gross,
place
and
the
is
It
nature.
Ibsenism.
Qiiintessetice
of
March,
13th
it is
morning,
have
Scott
that Mr
must
evident
gone
straight
from the theatre to the newspaper
office, and there,
in
hysterical
condition,
of this extraordinary
protest.
an
almost
share
bears
workmanship
however,
which,
the
Ghosts
honour,
it would
approved
But
Mr
world
which
with
moral
Scott's
love,
to
the
on
at
the
and
artistic
criticism
from
simultaneously.
was
hundreds
His
all singular,
of criticism,
playgoer
by
convulsions
witnessed
by
deride
to
seasoned
into
thrown
was
most
at
mock
and
were
enthusiasm,
in tone
appeared
of
by
writer
calls
of the curiosities
one
it does,
as
in the
even
document
as
rank
in
friendship,
distrust
exhibiting,
and
He
stage.
disbelieve
If this
performance
expression
in the
produced
the
on
to
to
fidelity.
the
disorder,
and
declares
virtue,
heighten
literary
to
authorities
at
haste
horror
passionate
seeing
and
only
The
of
marks
his
penned
with
many
approval,
persons
of
conscientiousness.
hardly
distinguishable
of others
opinion
was
which
the
The
Standard,
the
that
Lord
of
disorderly
his
and
represent
it that
celebrity,
the
teacher,
the
is
then
of
of
pean
Euro-
the
English
him
hail
poet
to
claim
How
they
article
and
as
moral
by
is so revolted
section
him
in terms
describe
which
another
that
they
themselves
by
are,
admit
all but
case,
may
section
dramatic
Mr
with
the
playwright
that
for the
Arnold,
party.
one
posed
pro-
Clearly
for
to
against
Act
criticism,
strongly
whilst
his works
attracts
living
greatest
they
the
so
people
be taken
Edwin
Sir
Norwegian
paper,
houses.
considerable
Ibsen,
daily
Tory
responsibility
accompanied
which
critic
Campbell's
editor
the
rests
whom
Watson,
should
under
suppression
Scott
leading
the
proceedings
theatre
the
Alfred
Mr
opinion.
vulgar
Pioneers.
Tzvo
the
This
obscene?
of
necessities
phenomenon,
Europe
has occurred
throughout
wherever
which
in
have
been
Ibsen's
as
acted,
plays
well as
be exhaustively
Australia,
America
must
and
before
explained
danger
without
in
the
will
Scott's
Clement
least
all that
be
not
as
most
to
Ibsen's
Such
the
that
has
not
an
tion
explanaMr
away.
misled
Ibsen
meaning.
his critic.
confusion
same
first business.
my
explaining
judgment
revolts
be
outset,
an
described
mind.
must
the
at
the
own
reader's
Understand,
be
can
plays
reproducing
of
therefore,
explanation,
the
the
For
him
in
means
example,
in
The
Ghosts,
the
The
in question,
play
fall in
woman
married
woman
love
to
proposes
one
with
her
She
woman.
a
has
and
his
on
crime
her
to
round
believes
By
corrupted.
denounce
opinion
impelled
he
as
does,
to propagate
the
be
the
Which
attack.
decided
you
until
There
are
an
as
many
open
to
these
unsocial
an
to
equally
provoke
which
is right
two
cannot
a
whether
opinions
would
holding
society
conduct
of
that
position.
rake
up
the
By
case
ago
them
Mr
every
the
eternal
the
of
way
of
beating
is
an
ment
incitein
paradox.
of
who
"property"
of
validity
them
illustration,
Proudhon,
denounced
tion
denuncia-
utterance
; and
is
conceive
a
virtues
implicit,
involves
all progress
To
recognized
is not
cannot
who
question.
assumption
virtues
century
people
of the
of any
which
morally
Scott's.
Clement
this
be
being
Ibsen
Ibsen's
agree
brought
are
it is ascertained
holding
of persons
lower
higher
or
than
be
not
convictions
society
to
is impelled
he
of the
her,
round
you
will
was
with
you
this conviction
Ibsen
this
that
does
when
to
virtuous
agrees
Scott
that
as
bring
to
play
Clement
Mr
her, and
with
the
written
his opinion.
Ibsen
part.
husband
recalls her
tells him
afterwards
another.
her
abandon
and
clergyman
live with
He
the clergyman.
her behave
duty,
makes
and
and
Ibsenisni.
Quintessence of
one
nearly
as
Yet
from
may
half
theft.
This
was
ever
man
hazarded
taxation
to
opposition
the
that
the
ones
new
reform
big
our
of
property
is challenged
to
easy
most
; and
the
of
original
replacement
; and
since
duty
established
had
duty
not
at
every
the
by
involves
an
of
man
English-
If the
duty
it,
to
repudiation
step.
repudiated
effect
conforming
of
the
point
institutions
institution
every
involve
must
progress
the
of
recognition
old
of
of the
takes
progress
social
now
are
complete
triumph
stances
in-
multiply
having
is
seize
through
social
be
the
ground
and
of
the
tion
confisca-
all memory
obliterated
The
it first had
to encounter.
paradox
to
the
of
condition
for
proposition
royalties
relation
through
"
"
the
schemes
It would
though
ineffective
of the community
the rest
all hands.
on
the
of
that
obvious
to
mining
of
that
paradox
such
commonplaces
honesty
holders
it seemed
reduced
To-day
city.
are
rents
the
be
speedily
sacked
by
maddest
countenanced
which
would
the very
thought
society
Pioneers.
Tzvo
TJie
absolute
of
the
duty
husbands,
and
limits
by
would
set
never
Married
to
qualify
of absolute
defied
public
to
modesty
have
gained
Women's
themselves
Property
as
as
opinion
their
the
to
submission
their
to
they
education,
protection
Act
medical
or
the
the
of
the
power
practitioners.
The
If Luther
head
had
priests
celibacy
on
on
his
the
defiance
every
step
a
torn
denounced
as
means
all the
choose
new,
is
reformer
as
an
apostate,
Wollestonecraft
as
libertine, and
in the Daily
as
reformer
repudiated,
every
Shelley
things
the
duty
Luther
virago,
the
is nothing
And
up.
to
chastity,
between
of
by
traitor, Mary
unwomanly
as
to
duty
of
accordingly,
Cromwell
vow
There
progress
of
scripture
Ibsen
still have
profligacy.
in
and
and
would
his duty
trampled
and
then,
an
not
of his Church
our
Ibsenisin.
Quintessence of
enumerated
Telegraph.
This
which
progress
of
crablike
the individual
advances
backward,
lessons
the
newly
to
rob
be
the
far
case
"
at
do ; and
of
precepts
that
the
late
Charles
disciples
of
to
go
in spite
of
all
renouncing
and
obey
be
not
all obligation
the commandments
the
claiming
But
he
what
seem
on
the
conscience
of
which
the
as
Bradlaugh,
Voltaire
and
he
him
than
divine
The
proved.
does
to
reasons
"
right
freethinker
the
doing
admit
the
man
pious
denying
be rationally
to
seeming
and
these
book
is at last forced
of the
the
large.
binding
more
us
in
evolution,
suddenly
to
for
reasons
cannot
man
Bible
appears
murder
to
want
to
the
such,
and
finds
soon
not
revelation,
believe
as
To
freethinker,
supernatural
by
illude
history.
of
made
to
to
continues
social
was
inspirati
pious
in the
for instance
Tom
Paine
do
not
pockets
or
Christian
pick
even
your
doubt
devil
the
saw
This
*
by
falling
from
time
the
when
be questioned.
the
over
binding
the
into
comes
No
object of
greatest
number,
dynamite
grotesque
but
strictly
becomes
into
freed
Its
one.
from
themselves
as
manifestly
by
German
the
hero
his
deathbed
believe
in
Voltairian
*
I had
am
speaking
but
as
to
God,
say
here
warn
of rationalism,
in men.
apparent
and
to
Jewish
worship
as
creed,
having
a
of letters.
can
prove,
composed
sonatas
by
done
was
who
collection
sat
up
such
The
piece
of philosophy
classified in the
students
on
"
beginning,
Beethoven."
despises
as
other
to
men
they
and
not
in
slavery
novelette,
his
is
Jehovah
and
exult
was,
Mozart,
freethinker
better
devotees
by
he
that
Contagious
Moloch,
old
of
good
abominations.
reasonable
musicians,
of Wagner's
logically
acting
result
as
up
sets
greatest
the
the
as
of
to
triumphed
conspiracies,
books
absurd
he
vivisection,
written
such
worship
belief
own
forthwith
the
rationalist
conservatism
has
Dagon,
of books
To
his
duty
in
Acts,
rolled
for
with
Diseases
Reason
same
securing
landed
presently
the
he
the
the
saves
sooner
men
all
to
screamed
really
means
no
than
on
is driven
actually
himself
theologian
the
with
he
than
oftener
his deathbed.
on
experience
throats
cut
Voltaire
whether
and
Pioneers.
Tiuo
The
of
that
books,
worship
sonata
a
worship
the
since
awe
is it not
; but
sentiment
to
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
TJie
lO
by
constructed
sonata
may
This
than
musician
by a logician,
does
feelings
rites
with
pious
man
who
yield
without
the
that
convinced
to
be
his neighbour's
purse, or
person,
In process
of time the age of
its way
the
to
women
at
right
for
no
conclusions
it saved
When
more
men
that
could
from
masculine
arriving
had
to
at
view
of the
begin
not
re-established
result
of Woman's
on
some
the
reasoning
women
throne
was
experience,
persuade
for
aptitude
ones.
in
modified
did at last
reason
; because
that
go
arriving
wrong
be
to
from
came
inaptitude
them
the
than
this generalization
fact
actual
nothing
prevented
from
In
it, their
adopt
had
reason
rationalism
though
off
wife.
faith.
to
that
observation
reasoning
of
hands
his
is
he
Ethics,
of
keep
to
faith
loses his
Data
trusted
becomes
turn
once
Spencer's
Herbert
longer
no
man
when
propensities
criminal
in
rationalist
infallibly
must
all his
to
the
that
thought
Bible
the
at
resistance
so
ing"
free-think-
syllogism
worship
the
sacrifice ; for just as
predecessor
scoffed
the
mean
human
of
rationalist's
in Mr
to
comes
soon
rationalist
and
of
to
occur
not
"
reason
of
votary
to
sensible
constructed
at least inspire
syllogism
devotion
and
more
much
she
was
the
began
to
to
doing
mistrust.
for
things
no
saying
there
since
the
at
been
seen
exception
to
met
the
with
"
he
was
understood,
since all human
that
fulfil
to
live
even
man's
(the
can
never
be
other
a
there
Voltaire,
must
of
taking
was
poetaster,
"
I dont
live."
some
The
evasion
if he
had
in human
necessity
consciously
postulate
lived
institutions
reason
; for
himself
Lies
the universal
was
which
being
sort
motor
shipwrecked
fact,
in
"
that
will, and
his
when
was
have
would
is to
that it
not,
the very
with
known,
have
must
"
teaches
constructed
are
his
him
impenitent,
bequeathing
will
to
Voltaire
visible
enough)
action,
to
his
is,
and
But
that
at
necessity
all.
short, not
light in Voltaire's
brought
to
time ;
not
died
today,
the sort
in
he
next
at
rescuing
Voltaire.
replied
denying
was
or
of
of the Father
face to face
worthy
was
for burning
had
One
plea
be
reasons
time.
trash
the necessity,"
Voltaire
"
the
do, there
to
famous
first and
most
have condemned
would
the
at
ing
find-
merely
of
would
good
of rationalism
further
hearing
it without
was
she
the
of
wanted
she
ing
justlearn-
are
instead
for
as
stake
from
drowning
One
better.
utterances
see
the moment
just as
crew
are
From
mischief
are
heretic
which
reasons
what
ii
men
errors
for what
reasons
Pioneers.
Tivo
Tlie
was
and
disciples
The
1 2
logical
that
most
also
"did
from
the
the
In
necessity."
the
of
distinct
to
to
and
it
make
spread.
Rationally
living
"^
friend
the
say
the
man
but
works,
is only
worth
its
than
will is
the doctrine
the
; and
by
of the
it
Here
greater
because
spirit of
by
not
are
pleasures
moderns,
or
soul
life
considered,
its
when
clear to
instances.
by
concrete
metaphysicians
Out of his teaching
came
the formulation
dilemma
that Voltaire
shut his eyes to.
amateur
is.
own
our
as
will
began
which
the moderns
practical importance
enormous
distinction,
the
guillotine,
machinery
the first among
was
appreciate
of
the
reasoning
the
agents,
recognition
Schopenhauer
to
of
see
not
the
century
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
our
of
old
tificat
jusits
derives
faith, clearly
no
the
that
validity from
consideration
action, taken
it, has any moral
the will behind
:
apart from
character
for example,
the
the
acts
make
murderer
and
which
infamous
incendiary
to those
are
exactly
similar
which
"
"
is the
Original
the
make
patriotic hero famous.
sin
will
good.
could
the
doing
Our
not
"Divine
mischief.
fathers,
that
conceive
were
other,
like
that
view
of the
of
all
unversed
the
these
pessimists,
It is
as
Schopenhaucrism
is
of its metaphysics
its philosophy.
by
well
one
no
in the
two,
to
each
and
means
is really
the
those
indivisible,
involves
dialectic,
negation
of
philosophy,
based
on
sin, and
divine
grace
warn
will doing
Hegelian
Schopenhauer's
same.
will as
original
the intellect is the
view that
from
it.
us
is the
grace"
on
the
old
the
1750-1850
that
is to
who
that
fancy
save
that
acceptance
endorsement
of
The
Now
pains.
to
Two
generation
in heaven,
believe
Pioneers.
the degradation
by
has
ceased to
learned
that
which
has
not
poverty
of
and
13
yet
four out
of every
the
if the
solely
of
the
unfit, and
by
that
which
represents
Plainly
do
the
is to
will commit
demonstration
of
end
of
instead
we
landed
in
is
illumination
but
feeble
that
to
machinery
of
dazzle
the nature
and
of light
its measurement
localization
us
sensation
of sound
our
with
"
live for
of
to
this
is
reasons
will to live.
for
none
it, there
the
and
the
forward
Thus
positive
to
construction
the
of
into
of
construction
speed
functions
it
when
its analyses
its researches
of the
of
as
for
mystery
looked
was
But
rationalists
obedience
we
one
of this will to
whatever
light that positive science
in comparison
the
with
account
the utmost
first began
its
afresh
no
gives
throws
eye,
that
to
for the
necessity
notion
of
fit surviv^ors.
"
the
of
live. Indeed
nature
"
of in fulfilment
are
science
the
in
suicide
swarms
four
of
live.
to
refuse
its civilization
maintain
thing
reasonable
be refuted
destruction
can
unfit in
the
It is
Kohe-
of
the
appalling
proportion
but
the
comparatively
them
an
by
only
manufacturing
then,
to
can
yet
Swift
and
progresses
world
pessimism
the
the
the
the
ear,
of the
of sensation,
of
the
brain,
The
14
its hints
and
and
the
Darwin,
rest,
by
class
Haeckel,
by
as
taught
Vestiges
of
isolated
the
clearing
away
had
we
as
both
made
thought
further
Those
generally
by
a
the
most
the attempts,
faith by
new
The
have
come
something,
matters
by
rationalism
immediate
materialism
either
relapse
hollowness
to
grief
you
are
reasoning
as
has
a
not
were
only
and
materialism
ance.
importpractical
whilst
into
as
nothing.
clinging
or
to
sion
submis-
are
caught
to
found
of materialism.
in it ; and
if you
nothing
likely,
the
hollowness
by
materialist
about
we
of mystics
the
on
We
from
abject
renewed,
rationalizing
before.
Churches,
of the
constantly
isolation
of them.*
up
paternal
which
isolated the
ever
; and
the heart
give
who
rationalism
to
into
correlation between
has
some
process
this
for
of metaphysics
by
with
The
than
escaped
in the
in short, only
live.
conspicuous
had
fact
Chambers'
with
rationalism
to
the
been
mysteries
will
you
consciousness
of
petty
the
more
carried
in
have
it; justas
of
region
The
would
mystery
several
cloudy
"^
explain
Materialism,
great
we
loss to
satisfied
Creation.
mystery
great
you
were
confused
middle
know,
all they
you
at
utterly
of consciousness
days
you
when
the
among
Huxley,
the
among
and
and
lectures of the National
Secular
the
have
Society,
still
Young,
Helmholtz,
here
popularized
Tyndall
proletariat
are
the
possibility of producing
as
the fruit of its chemical
presently
fact remains
The
of protoplasm.
investigation
when
to
as
homunculus
that
Ibsenism.
Qtmitessence of
reasoning
mystic,
to
about
improve
Two
The
have
We
the
not
Only
we
the
laugh
that
at
Ability
desirable
as
that
reasoning
to
to
ever,
see
and
conceit,
no
faith
than
more
calculate our
intend
to do
that
in
as
as
strongly
from
theologist
from
as
to
theology
a
to
the
lapse
motor
prime
common
of
alarming,
threatening,
tend
towards
Paine
Tom
predestined
To
deists
the godless
would
have
The
chaos.
to
were,
the
and
divines
alike
self-worshipper
been
monster.
last
deists
divines
devils, tempting
both
to
because
hideous,
of
Ferdinand
the
step
will
as
gist
theoloappears
it
seems
Voltaire
mankind
and
the
of the
at
progress
step
rationalist
that
so
to
as
to
does
the
of
recurs
seems
recognition
sanity,
rationalist
illusion
the beneficent
strike
and
to
the
any
criterion
progress
impiety,
of
mind,
sound
of
is
motor
prime
rationalism
growth
rationalism
the
Just as
ever.
wilful
is as
so
actions
is, to fulfil
"
is the
Bible
the
movement
retrogressive
as
we
accurately
by
it is only
accurate
intention.
righteous
At this point, accordingly,
the
To-day
can
do
that
was
ourselves
we
what
as
will ; but faith in reason
longer
the criterion
of the
our
boast
reason
since
we
led.
been
now
beings.
human
of
strangeness
highest
our
reasonable
creatures.
as
day
other
were
we
which
15
off the
have
worn
yet
to
position
Pioneers.
their
and
day,
hellward.
Lassalle,
man-worshipper
Yet
many
who
to-
16
The
day
Lassalle's
echo
demand
institutions
political
Ibsenisin.
Qiimtessence of
that
be
should
economic
and
to
adapted
the
his fillout
and drink
of
labour, are
by
own
the product
revolted
Ibsen's acceptance
towards
of the impulse
greater
freedom
for the repudiation
as
sufficient ground
of
will to
of his
man's
poor
any
it
to
seems
longer
no
For
them,
during
to
neighbour,
First
be
Man's
And
duty
if
In
doing
this
is
gloomy
cast
last
of
conception
in
be
and
assessed
Lassalle
no
the
Duty
duty.
out
of
word,
duty
man's
his
was
his
to
Will
assessor.
by
succeeded
by
himself?
the
us
conception
see.
self-worshipper.
reproach
in
step
tyranny,
self-mistrust,
Man's
the
to
That
just called
so
duty
assessor.
as
repudiated,
himself,
to
sanctified
have
come
man's
was
came
Society
so,
the
as
then
and
what
of Duty
I have
there
priest
with
too
this
of
been
overthrowings
infallible, has
pre-eminently
Evidently
it cannot
off scatheless.
God,
the
with
rmisiy
"
all these
that
Duty?
repudiated
republic
conduct
when
inviolable covenants.
things
and
free
as
even
is
by
regulated
happening
it
pieces
to
go
that
sacred,
were
"
Social-Democratic
sacred
thing,
Society
it.
what,
things
however
duty,
customary
conflicts with
Lassalle's
as
eat
on
him
evolution
for
of the
first, a
arises at
helplessness,
abstract
fear.
his
He
Tzvo
The
and
God.
his
He
When,
his to what
to
what
becomes
becomes
humanitarian,
his duty
to
correlative
evolution
the
this duty
of
of duty
the
But
just reached
is ground
struggle
for
until, in due
out
money,
course
or
will, a
to himself.
This
of
in it the
emancipated
And
of Society,
in which
all
phase
it by the
this
when
competitive
crushes
in him
sense
preach
last,
evangelist
the
of his generation,
B
therefore
must
This,
is indeed
himself
be selfish.
to
ceases
of his
is fully
of duty
it hardly
is yet, the tyranny
which
is
is broken
God
the man's
; for now
grown,
he, self-satisfied at
him
of his
growth
last arises
at
is
evolution
in the
phase
capitalist
remorselessly
of the further
sense
stage
in the
stage
the dominion
falls under
having
altruist, acknowledging
rationalist
and
the love
and
The
on
fear everything,
to
something,
an
of industry.
of God
duty
duty
hell, and
be happy.
to
his neighbour.
to
of philosophy
spirit
his
he
only
which,
God,
fiercely
with
ceases
as
into a sense
fears evolves
he again
he loves.
Sometimes
personifies
he loves as God;
and the God
of Wrath
he at once
: sometimes
the God
of Love
what
slave
of
slavery
he
love
to
slave
attempts
bolder,
dares
fears
them
for their
becoming
and
that
threatening
them
punishing
the
imposes
children,
\y
abstractly
becomes
straightway
to
he
all that
personifies
Pioneers.
to
the
unthe prepared
wanton
TJie
masterpiece
been
has
duty,
by
men
of
the
before
road
duty
far?
! after
life
noble
the
But
Pope,
has
God
be
by
in
Reason
or
sacred than God
Having
now
the
at
arrived
by
Man,
of duty
repudiation
and
treated
the
by
Ibsen.
back
come
repudiation
I shall be
without
on
subject of
to
of duty
in
the
to
by
position
to
risk of misunderstanding.
Duty
Is
turn.
of
the
make
prospect
ideals
Woman
be
Infallible
the
shall
and
idealists,
in
round
point by way
same
most
had
I shall go
the
thus
us
he
; and
deposed
fathers
our
once
was
more
digression
is
redeem
brought
became
Reason
to
Duty,
duty
that
must
made
conceptions
Then
only
alone
not?
our
of
denied.
as
"
the
"
repudiations
why
to
as
step
another
advance
having
imagine
as
we
which,
duty
all that
only
we
which
can
we
along
and
sacred
from
curse
primal
forgotten
"
What
paradox.
said
ourselves
on
of
being
of all right conduct
duty,"
is he to be told now
secret
the
Ibsenisni.
Quintessence of
; and
describe
then
the
loop,
of the
at last
plays
II.
AND
IDEALS
have
his
dares
other
mere
effects
to
more
he
he
terror
infancy
to
tear
himself
persuade
this purpose
we
now
on
The
all know.
as
he
And
long
must
and
;
fast
king
:
he
Man
How
requires
could
He
be
must
propitiated,
he
face of Death
he did the
they
have
he
of terrors,
could
as
and
as
mask
thought.
the
the
inexorable,
every
abolished.
of immortality
more
himself
as
Death
that
circumvented,
the mask
most
of that
daring
inexorable
Arch-Inexorable
dread
the
from
helplessness
ones
it off.
and
his courage
tell
the
that
so
known)
himself
by
of
threatening
un-
love
to
But
and
the
the
name
raises
face
not
the
was
bear
fight.
knowledge
of all things
hero
Death,
more
his
masked
all the
discovered
them
a
and
facts
could
facts being
so
the
by the growth
bolder
also
to
through
grows
may
face
in
For
truth.
not
more
consciousness
and
(if I
of to fear and
instead
trust
Man
as
himself
spirit
and
has
that
seen
ages, he finds
of
IDEALISTS.
fixed
for
like
remained
gone
mad
TJie
20
Quintessence of Ibsenisni.
terror
with
headed
by
the
skeleton
hourglass.
The
masks
them
called
life be
begin
more
brave
the
the
still
some
of the
Sandwich
Museum.
In
the
see
sexual
and
iron
the
laws
can
love
basis
mere
in
to
by
When
the
around
fantastic
than
of
the
to
masks
the
in the
do
us
any
British
especially
all the
masks
brutalities of the
stages
rigorous
Society
which
dare
yet
earlier
soften
equally
"
its developmen
of
aspect
regulates
of
its
comes
besocial
organism
bent on
riage
civilization, it has to force marlife on
family
the individual, because
and
itself in no
perpetuate
other way
whilst
gratification.
it
disguise
to
more
whenever
laid hands
romances
beautiful
the
be
not
rest
masks
and
novels
most
instinct
more
to
prevailed
the
these
an
looking
are
not
islanders'
our
devised
those
did
of
them
of
than
they
plenty
men
terror
greatest
which
without.
We
have
we
all
would
dared
is, to
that
and
he
became
he
until
as
ask,
off and
realist bolder
mask
"
so
But
realist.
; and
would
Thus
he
dared,
"
ideals,
he
masks
face
scythe
his
were
him,
around
the
with
what,
ideals?
the
some
shapes
and
pulling
in
grim
remained
and
spectres
on
without
idealist,
and
the
of
is still known
of
sexual
physical
the
only
by
relationship
appetite.
fitful glimpses,
being
Under
in
these
the
the
main
circum-
Ideals
by
desperately
forced
it
that
point
than
their
do
to
requested
by
so
that
desired
that
and
an
means,
the
also that
sphere,
forms
it
always
better
kindred
and
ever
what
making
assume
their
proper
knows
institution
one,
to
is always
woman
necessity
the
congenial
woman's
even
on
acquaintances,
womanly
or
that
love
desired
is
21
pleasure
decency
public
chance
family
really
is
of
once
no
is
them
spontaneously
woman
the
graft
pretending
upon
men
to
try
men
stances
Idealists.
and
ment,
attach-
until
she
if
Now
man.
has been
by the
embittered
childhood
dislike of his mother
the ill-temper
of his
and
for him
father ; if his wife has ceased
to
care
anyone's
studied
hard
him
for
is eternal
Yet
a
then
agree
to
this,
with
and
him
that
discard
his
is thicker
passion
than
water.
the
whole
it for
until
outgrows
the
institution
by
or
Society
else
resolutely
they
mistake,
so
can
must
making
cannot
which
organization
that
comes
either
is
system
one,
social
it ;
itself without
new
It
seems
must
neighbours
happen
in countenance
that
possibly
him
it is
wishes,
failure by
that
and
himself
persuade
that blood
tells himself
and
plans
to
and
if he
waste
his
of
far
petuate
per-
keep
believe
The
22
illusions
all the
that
are
masked
For
sake
community
of the
British
Seven
hundred
for them.
must
be
they
since
they
from
coercing
law.
family
is
For
grapes
he cannot
the sloes he
has
the
happened.
conventional
the
fox
get
not
are
The
happens
and
not
holy
enough
to
suit at
natural
299
face
the
failures,
sour
family
their
that
the
it happens
all.
the
tion.
institu-
natural
as
the
own
be,
observe
it really
legally enforced,
for
to
try
may
Now
sweet.
the
with
declares
:
ones
satisfied
whatever
are
The
accordingly
holy
arrangement,
because
good
700
only
are
to
conformity
and
majority,
think
occupies
arrangements
get
can
the
will
beautiful
person
irremediable
"
that,
domestic
particular
they
courage
into
They
enough
find it
it since
presently.
prevent
themselves
persuade
with
the
them
find the
ninety-nine
remaining
failures
are
cannot
marriage
up
have
present.
good
quite
explained
not
will
it at
will suppose,
and
put
The
to
fact that
we
hundred
minority.
failures
know
we
organized
the basis
on
species
arrangement
Two
position
as
of them,
failure, but
a
been
imagine
us
persons,
of the
family
family
let
thousand
of
perpetuation
in
has
it
which
precision,
of
for the
with
realities.
the
British
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
to
minority,
The
institution
family
what
is is a
which
suit
them,
it
whom
tiful
beauas
a
is only
fancy
Ideals
picture
as
minority
of
fancy
of
forcing
that
ideals
absolutely
as
or
conduct
any
and
Our
299
idealists
oratory,
to
as
marriage
far outdo
as
marriage
the
of calling it
beautiful
and
opinion
poetry,
matter
"
an
one,
The
by
them
calling
classified
idealists, leaving one
the
is strong
who
idealists are
"
marriage,
This
It is insufferable
IDEALISM.
become
the
proclaiming
and
platform
they
accept
dreaming
never
less
much
pretty
holy
plainly
of
fuss about
crackbrained
idealists, hurt by this, will retort
Philistines.
VVe then
have our
society
man
is
of
comfortably
being
countena
dismay
conversation,
course,
and
contrary
immoral,
pulpit
institution,"
that idealism
nothing.
in
who
of
conduct,
therefore
are
private
700
and
it being
policy
; and
serious
and
the
failures
fiction,
in
ideal
will
domestic
recognize
of
as
punished
as
policy
assumption
moral
advocacy
if
the
circumstances,
all
be described
therefore
to
standard
under
valid
the
on
act
by
the
; and
real, and
action
such
to
are
them.
IDEAL
be
to
in its
which
We
call this
reality,
to
an
picture
individuals
all
accept
for the
mask
is intolerable
nakedness
sort
have
would
suited, invented
be
to
was
everybody
23
family
every
of what
Idealists.
and
700
as
Philistines
man
299
and
He is the
unclassified.
to face the truth that
enough
He
flatly of
says
shirking.
thing
that
is
two
beings,
of
us.
having
The
24
into
entered
can
or
exist,
arisen.
not
ends
only
should
be
warm
have
Let
us
they
for the
maintain
to
ceased
have
never
and
ideal
is based
false
that
the
of satisfying
for the social
purpose
otherwise
provide
to
attractions
it is historically
founded
affection
forced
family
the
which
; and
was
them.
which
such
upon
exist
family
Ibsenism.
affections
in spite of the fact that
The
natural
alleged
after
repulsions
do
relations
tolerable,
render
them
Quintessence of
will be
man
the
The
measure
at
"
rest
will
idealists will
the
at
thought
the
Philistines
But
mad.
of
attitude
the
proclamation
the
presence
to
this outspoken
him
think
simply
be terrified beyond
of
of
their
traitor
the
hidden
among
the conspirators
at the rending
of the
of silence
beautiful veil they and their poets have woven
to
"
hide
the
him,
him,
ostracize
filthy, and
Philistines,
despised
occasion
SOCIETY.
him
depends
theirs.
At
paradoxer
against
and
as
to ruin
him
if not
brand
appeal
immoral,
as
against
him
profligate,
to
the
for the
idealized
specially
far they will proceed
How
how
far his courage
on
exceeds
his worst,
at
him
his best
to take
they
they
cynic
call him
do their utmost
purblindly
Ideals
courageous
without
and
who
their
denying
the
indeed
depend
is
which
But take
to
being
illusion
that
his
ideals
Tennyson
ideal
was
Shelley
his enmity
dwelt
our
seen
hoof,
marked
enemy
"
with
against
upon
cloven
have
are
lyrics
the
pretence
himself,
those
with
neither
of
ever
of whom
highly
some
said
"
idealist
identical
respectable
two
the
of
examples
human
hate
So
that
or
the
and
horn,
or
external
to
stages
of
were
and
we
has
absolutely
to
describe
flames
from
{Literary Gazette^
angel,
to
natural
superby
him
beating
friend,
asked
19th
his
impression
this
the
had
gratify
if the
as
of
appearance
ineffectual
him
heightened
only
strongly
fiends
of the
enable
race,
this individual,
of mankind."
beautiful
body
human
the
minds
darkest
of the
one
atrocity of his
do
to
injury.
had
who
"
clothed
power
him
implicit.*
criticism :
if
feel as
We
been
not
an
in which
following
The
"
line
bottom
Longfellow,
idealists
called
his
of
than
be
must
and
a
wrote
at
was
already
illusion to enable
new
less
nothing
he
since
they
cynic
beauty
the
enjoy
make
idealist.
The
Shelley.
invented
until they
to
zealous
has
who
man
"
the
of
example
ideals
nothing
off with
of
cynic, the free use
the
of
Shelley
call
them
case
an
as
us
served
did not
fiend
the
ideals,
get
of
mark
facts
current
of
those
on
La-
and
unpleasant
validity
name
familiar
state
piquant,
this
than
25
Mandeville
merely
who
statements
worse
like
moralists
rochefoucauld,
Idealists.
and
to
us
must
mouth,
bitter
so
May
if
as
"
182
in the
an
1.)
void
The
26
Here
was
the
And
argument.
ideal
thought,
and
poisonous
and
indeed
have
ideals,
and
masks
depict
the
by
are
man
his
luminous
tearing
his
preface
to
the
by
cross
in
the
selection
name
the
pen
poems
"
you
if,
their
with
future
thing
be
cannot
at every
by
the
tutions
insti-
the
and
(Matthew
of
called
with
one
position
purposes
existing
existing
realize
mask
we
which
ideals
called
mortal
vain."
effete
be,
may
be
to
identity
to
the
then
described
wings
be
under
is striving
will be at
reader,
to
an
the
possibilities
confounded
asunder,
If
are
their
maintaining
who
possibilities by
intelligibly
an
is defending
who
man
masked
also
be
of
mask
image
of what
on,
masks
confusion
may
its place.
future
the
is to be
masks
in
their
with
again,
is,
self,
it-
mask
the
whilst
generally
fain
would
facts,
one,
the
and
institution
the
since
its verbal
this word
institution
the
desperate
producing
whole
use
both
masks
realist,
the
spoils
denote
to
the
spoil
unfortunately
ideal
the
thereby
the
we
indifferently
which
to
seems
it certainly
For
consistency.
Shelley,
that
admission
idealist too,
an
Ibsenisin.
Quintessence of
and
I,
sentence
Arnold,
Byron,
in
dated
1881.)
The
Further
Salt,
true
one
88
is much
position
opinion
as
social
pioneer.
Ideals
Idealists.
and
27
like
to distinguish
pioneers
allow me
Shelley and Ibsen as realists from the idealists of
imaginary
If
thousand.
my
of one
community
unless
you
you
ask
other
I have
why
and
way,
not
Shelley
called
terms
the
allotted
Ibsen
and
the
idealists
distinction,
if
now
were
harped
repeatedly
as
conventionalists
and
that
so
on
ideals
idealists
and
to
perversely
conventions
them
call
readers
confuse
realists, I should
of
Duck
I
RosDiershobn
more
than
and
realities and
Wild
The
help
should
for
the
Doubtless
puzzling
by
people
ideal.
term
of
meaning
ask,
is that
to
if I follow
the
custom,
only
If the
account
of
recommend
associate
Philistines,
verbal
term
violently
realist is
else
(I
us
do
than
not
with
return
299
to
and
our
idealists,
ambiguity
in
deal
Zola
compared
produce
indiscriminately
incompatible
objected
against
on
can
it
associate
of
to
definitions),
Maupassant,
community
and
to
description
own
what,
word
must
my
reproache
limiting
associations,
if you
you,
it, not
with Plato.
let
Now
two
But
the
use
of its modern
some
with something
its meaning
mere
its
thus
I must
tangle
and
be
shall
perplexity
passing
inextricable
in
senses
the
inevitable
the
them.
but
of
The
realist.
which
700
have
The
28
is
just provided
comes
of any
these
three
the
of
The
at
ordinary
him
as
than
of evolution
and
rancour
and
duty.
and
highest
the
The
the
man
who
fear that his
the
and
strikes
of which
is guiltless.
the danger
risen above
reason
of
hates
dread
which
the relations of
they are, in terms
in the ascent
yet
that
express
simple
Philistine
easy-going
has
to
systems
higher
with
beside
nothing
attempt
Philistine,
the
as
sections,
ideaHst,
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
libertine,
and
lowest because
the
but
ignorant
and
cultured.
speaks,
he
is proved
and
idiot, not
by
those
of how
read
have
have
foolishly
themselves
calumny
burnings,
of the
and
pioneer
It is from
we
Shelley
Robert
men
learn
was
Owen
have
the
Siberia
the
ostracism
as
well
of
have
by
was
man
crucifixions,
headings
living
who
been
the
the lot
follower.
the camp
literary reputation
of established
Blake
that William
spoiled
who
the
transportations,
which
as
never
those
the
stonings,
both
tions
demonstra-
on
volumes
written
hangings,
and
such
error,
the
be
to
who
learned
the
it is not
When
come
the
that
and
with
this
maintain
who
the
prophet
rascal
confounded
highest.
And
stupid
literate
the
true
thus
and
he is the
in
did
was
mad,
low
not
set,
know
that
that
the
Ideals
that
The
great
"
is
Ibsen
and
of comprehending
blackguard,
is a mere
that Zola
economy,
poHtical
29
is incapable
that Ruskin
world,
Idealists.
and
Zola
with
by
accepted
musician,
the
listener, is vilified by
his fellow-musicians
the
of
musical
Wagner
culture
The
it
is
not
and
Stone
Marcus
Mr
above
Academy
be
to
not
"
Burne
it should
the
among
Royal
the
to
something
self in
us,
ideals
the
ashamed
have
because
he
himself,
of
the
much
who
better.
deep
The
to
by
it
has
corrupt,
is only
the
last
denying
these
of
years
conformity
ideals
are
the
to
only
Roman
the
the
swaddling
come
much
so
to
the
naturally
excesses
empire
by
To
the
ideals.
is
faith in the
and
from
is
and
all this
that
realist, who
back
refuge
himself
worse.
held
ing
resist-
committing
it so
of his own
will, thinks
human
To
the one,
nature,
validity
of
taken
hates
us,
murder
instead
for himself
respect
The
blind
to
has
thinks
that
ideals altogether,
something
idealist,
"
rational
something
whereby,
disarm
can
we
Hodgson
so,
with
us,
numb
The
suicide.
only
something
death,
with
them
Mr
Mr
places
It is not
it is
; but
in the street
men
mention
Jones.
so
in
sees
pronounced
which
and
that
unskilled
: it was
Meyerbeer.
inferior of Mendelssohn
and
the
great artist finds his foes among
the
painters,
Europe
leg."
wooden
clothes
of
selfother
which
The
30
has outgrown,
man
his
Quintessence of
movements.
The
agree.
egotism
and
which
No
wonder
idealist
; and
that
insufferably
"
says,
he
is morally
means
depravity."
a
when
free in
dead
cannot
Realism
man
and
The
the
abnegates
be
a
will to live and
world
to
and free, seeking
only
conform
the sake of being, not himself, but
then
impede
two
the
means
egotism
realist declares
Ibsenisin.
living
of
the
to
ideals
for
"
rotten,
man,"
good
be
must
and
left unheeded
his resurrection,
to abide
if that by
luck arrive before
his bodily
death.
fortunat
Ungood
this is the sort
but
amusing
actual
realist
as
well
example
understands.
as
of
more
an
that
of speech
It
be
will
convincing
nobody
to
idealist criticising
more
take
a
an
realist.
III.
THE
WOMAN.
WOMANLY
EVERYBODY
Marie
Revieiv
of
Stead,
WiUiam
character,
object
of
"
"
as
purity
retains
his best
qualities
make
his ideals
is an
of that ideal
believe
any
grotesquely
given
with
himself
sexual
As
life.
"
he
ness,
wilfulhe
Prominent
can
among
In support
ideal of womanliness.
he will, like all idealists, make
and
however
statement,
dilemma
of
account
his
that
found
and
Marie
utterly
incompatible
obviously
he
When
account
the
with
by
to him
the
heard.
unreal.
Bashkirtseff's
of
unscrupulousness
conscientious
always
ideal
public
the
with
faith in himself,
"
to
scandalous
campaign
of
condition
had
he
which
the
establishing
tate,
the Aposfollowing
somewhat
a
upon
entered
editor, Mr
immense
in rendering
realistic feat of
was
an
gained
service
public
perform
of
of it, with
in the
given
having
who,
by
Reviezvs
Diary
outline
commentary,
running
"
the
remembers
An
Bashkirtseff."
herself
a
of
ideal,
he
either
woman's
was
Marie
mind
confronted
was
not
The
32
woman
or
"
antithesis
by
been
to
by
Let
been
have
would
Nevertheless
he had
otherwise
ideal.
she
thinks
that
is
this
no
evidence
Marie,"
came
he
philosopher,
find
lover
was
student,
that
doubt
be
if there
following
lines.
musician,
like
you
heart
to
Now
of
wit,
but
a
love, and
a
soul
in sacrifice for
satisfaction
child."
abominations
artist,
anything
a
with
for
the
quarrel
"
its supreme
or
fundamental
in
out
said,
woman
natural
his
However,
Marie
with
to
have
any
without
compulsion
herself a highly
made
skilled
hours
day for six years.
ten
a
who
control."
"
Stead's
being
self-control,
not
the
was
Mr
woman."
says,
she,
working
anyone
tive.
alterna-
he
She
ideal, could
his
circumstances,
artist
Mr
Marie
that
record
from
in his
like
more
former
the
womanly,"
that
was,
quality
possessed
true
to
correspond
little trace.
of
not
accepted
but
difficulty
leading
did
distinctively
the
is in her
next
ideal
actually
Of
"there
very
his
else
He
nature.
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
society
make
any
so
mean
as
all
the
idealist
I
pestiferous,
that
of
forcing
a
woman
that
self-sacrifice on
under
pretence
to contradict
she likes it ; and, if she ventures
her no
declaring
true
In
the pretence,
woman.
India
length
carried
this
piece
of declaring
that
they
wife
of
idealism
could
not
to
bear
the
to
TJie
her
survive
her
husband,
her
but
life
the
on
astonishing
sooner
than
be
branded
that
British
Philistinism
Stead,
by
of
Imagine
MYSELF
The
woman
young
were
given
that
own
her,
in
"
She
again,
was
was
she
Marie
result.
less agreeable
to
conformer
conspicuously
wrote
and
Mr
as
one
pleased
the
swear
is
Now
ideal
reverse.
of
with
by
famous."
to
that
powers
opinion,
solely
for her lover or
to
exclaim
doubt ; but
no
this notable
a
of being
female
ordinary
Stead
her
representing
C
Christ, by
was
womanliness,
Mr
on
proposing
driven
the
is
solemnly
be
observe
instead
than
diary,
of
I will
clever,
infatuated
himself
them
Bashkirtseff,
the
woman's
Stead's
very
person
all the
sake
not."
children,
his feelings
positively
sacrifice
he
wonder
No
child !
alive.
the
passion
years
might
she
woman
the
was
her
for
exercise
"
this,
four
in
that
"
in
entry
by
drink,
with
burnt
it still survives
of
rescuer
Or
Gospels,
wretches,
idealizing
widow
is abolished
in
suttee
form
myself"
the
unsexed
stupefied
; and
this
across
coming
"
I love
women,
down
put
the
offer
his dead
that
condition
of its high-priests.
one
"
be
unwomanly
as
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33
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34
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; then
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The
unless
35
effect is the
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37
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The
38
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The
40
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41
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The
42
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can
person
insists
to
43
kindness
cruel
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existence.
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44
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and
"
old
truth
more
what
to
given
if any
And
foresee
the
all
and
does
man
harvest,
in all sincerity
last
we
any
other
honest
come
generation
not
what
against
to
street
cry, albeit
know
the
cry, and
a
do
to
understand.
and
but
destruction,
of
bear
cry
to
false alarm.
less ;
no
it is not
does
understand,
he do
can
such
roots,
putrefaction
can
he
else
what
his
of
He
true."
the
on
the
proclaiming
beautiful, the
everywhere
and
longer
is no
beauty
longer
no
for
trespassers
matter,
the
his
in spite
weeds
feed
which
of the worms
protection
letting in light and air to hasten
the
of decaying
sacred,
driving
always
against
made
duties,
was
what
of pretty
gardens
necessarily
repudiates
profanes
For
type.
must
infamous,
was
sanctifies what
particular
it is the
as
ideals,
on
more
pioneer
outcry
such
provoke
I may
further
occupatio
prewithout
Scott's protest, or
Clement
the
that
see
of Woman's,
some
Man's
to
way
of which
others
back
come
work
Mr
with
45
and
give
Ibsen's
of
Wonian.
Womanly
The
the
with
cannot
out
cry
until
like
blind
it
at
as
an
IV.
THE
PLAYS.
BRAND.
now
are
WE
that
in
the
which
woman,
It follows
of
that
Lane
type
forge
or
virtue
of his determination
Therefore
sometimes
that
the
that
actions
soul
furnace.
the
are
comes
In
he
since
of Ibsen
are
to
heroine
nothing
wrong.
have
playgoers
him as to suppose
"
rather
than
ruin
purified
the
unwomanly
villain
villain by
out
was
an
one
the
but
beginning
is
idealist.
an
which
from
the tribulations
fact, the
reputation
and
is
do
not
"
examples
mischief
does
nor
far misconceived
so
his villains
and
their
assassinate,
readers
villain
lady is not
leading
the
is
"
"
giving
mis-
play
lady"
"leading
the
without
Ibsen
typical
and
Drury
the
learn
to
prepared
as
gold
warnings,
attend
which
from
the
of Ibsen's
pean
Euro-
with
edification
which
his great
matic
drathe pious of Scandinavia
received
Brand.
Brand
the priest is an idealist
poem
He
of heroic earnestness,
strength, and courage.
Brand.
declares
they
himself
of things
by
be
to
ought
men
man
Brand
is
Adam
fall in
to
urges
his
duty
man
cross
ideals
nor
in
him
clown,
fiord
in
storm
reach
"
series
of
committed
from
consolation
"
alone
someone
he
whom
the old
to
and
idealism,
and
in the
deeply
Adam
the
go.
hold
the
manages
of
priest.
must
whilst
estimate
woman,
attached.
sail.
does
fog
not
only
to prevent
Brand
knocks
man
murders,
Brand
who,
wants
cannot
go
of his boat
fisher folk, in
rudder
The
do
not
adopt
his
ends
in their marriage,
they become
child to which
Then
Brand
from
aspiring
That
goes.
birth of
the
is strong,
gravity
perfect
whom
it is
because
dying
to
having
else.
ness
with fierce earnesthas to cross
Brand
Presently
scorn.
and
it
as
him
sermonizes
and
man
the
forcibly
own
be,
can
peasant
life.
his
perfect
Adam
Brand
risking
or
"
daughter,
from
ordered
anyone
but
this conformity,
on
views.
glacier
is
as
they
as
the
he
as
self
these
made,
as
of
is nothing
The imperfect
with
ideal
himself
is everything.
not
he
nothing
things
all the
In insisting
neither
be
Things
to
be.
to
spares
Life
is not
conformed
is his duty
his
to
again,
who,
him
things
of
can
be.
to
for
mean
they
as
ought
conformed
Adam,
but
they
as
not
champion,
of things
nor
are,
the
47
The
48
height
from
height
to
depth
of devotion
leave
his
to
child
gipsy
in his place.
preacher
to
give
whose
the
of the
the clothes
baby
needs
them.
The
bereaved
but
she
as
in
his wife
to
exposed
congregation
inferior
an
peril of getting
he forces
Then
dead
First
cruelty.
of murderous
die from the severity of the climate
flinch from
the post of
not
must
child must
because
Brand
and
to
depth
to
the
duty
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
perfect
the imperfection
of the imreservation
forces her to regard
He
Eve.
the situation
a
the relic and his ideal.
choice between
this
as
She
idealism
upon
having
"
she
people
as
church
too
own
them
the
their minds,
themselves
and
stone
avalanche.
immolated
to
mountains.
the
her
bed
death-
saint,
him
doubt
to his mother's
property,
small
to follow
temple,
has
to
finds his
and
for his congregation.
experience
an
to go
compromises
of her
in disposing
daring
ever
altar he
whose
also refused
because
upon
beyond
himself
placed
worship
After
newly
So
God
a
built
he calls
in His
brief practical
they change
of this arrangement,
him.
The very mountains
stone
him,
indeed
; for he
is killed by
Gynt.
Peer
GYNT.
PEER
Brand
dies
talented
he
Gynt,
by
the
this
he
know
who
it
or
no
it
was
two
men
he
and
for himself
women
:
or
indeed
all
be
to
the
scapegrace
wife to the
his ideal on
his
implicit
be unique
it should
have
the force to realize
"
ideal
in
the
that
he
it.
For
of the
self-realized
indomitab
the saint, but the demigod
whose
destiny,
than
the
will is stronger
is not
master,
resist, the
thousand
by
whether
Brand,
than
Peer,
mother
it is
first boyish
fighter, the
can
alone
should
Peer
self
of him-
force
would
Peer Gynt
keeps
Brand
alone
man
than
was,
itself that
poem
that
better
of
sweetheart
ideal
Peer's
leave
indeed
and
will agree
Gynt
to be Peer
all question
the
as
points
plays
better
Brand.
saintly
all
himself
the
or
liar
and
would
beyond
mother
not
of his own
satisfaction
will.
be on
to
to
seem
the path
utter
was
with
avoids
who
his ideal the realization
Ibsen
which
done
rascal named
Brand's
errors
accomplished
as
up
most
dramatic
another
idealist
an
setting
In
an
the
does
Ibsen
In
inferred.
us
gives
than
have
possibly
tense
in-
more
caused
saintliness
opportunities.
be
this to
his
could
sinner
his
twice
having
saint,
by
suffering
49
notion
the
man
hunter,
mighty
adventures,
"
the
D
no
whom
the
model,
woman
knight
in
of
short,
of
The
50
lover
the
boy's
or
in
lady's
did
make
for anything
way
he
that
tram
hold
cannot
car,
human
less
much
or
will and
street
crossing
world
against
is
ideal,
illusions
the
hide
to
he
can
has
door
feats
no
the
can
guests
he
yet
which
which
enjoy
even
he
in the
from
Only
as
cannot
the
in
he
mountains
him
withstand
he must
him
that
as
an
th"
turous
adven-
bravado
mountains
by
finds
through,
round.
street
at which
the
spirits with
go
wedding
in
military
than
by
he
as
mountains.
his
gain
persuade
countryside
his reputation
to
find
to
to
foundation
has
conceive
Himself,
of
invented
are
to
shabby
of his hut
; and
he
the
by
However,
and
Emperor
solider
Gynt,
Gynt,
the
over
genius
persuade
enough
its unreality,
Peer
that
hunting
His
whole
into illusions to
imaginative
also
loafer, is Peer
writes
against
is a wheelbarrow.
than
circumstances
Peer Gynt, being imaginative
enough
himself
finds
soon
to
all other
his
man
refuses
anybody,
plunging
fact gives
the lie
every
which
himself
that
The
exist.
by
Only
race.
can
exists,
person
such
indomitable
an
cultivates
who
ever
or
exist,
no
in
hero
the
or
novel,
Now,
romance.
ever
Ihsenisnt.
Quintessence of
ridicule
obstacles
obstacles
voices,
telling
he
will
But
Gynt.
Peer
not
he
in
in hand,
sword
he
has
to
go
means
to
a
our
amateurs
into
enter
he
pig,
princess
conspiracy
When
repulsive
is ready
a
on
to
noble
the
ravine
as
steed,
and
their obscene
their discordant
on
as
is willing
will
He
she
farmhouse,
up
with
will go
with
pretend
hold
of
hear
even
in
but
as
them,
he
has
; he
ambrosia
will
dancing,
antics as exquisite
din as divine
music
he draws
in
been
back,
highly
respectable
man
and
; but
so
that
they
as
see
to be
resolved
He
leaves
the
self-deception.
a prosperous
and becomes
America,
to
pretending
filthy
their
is
their orgies
partake
and
beautiful
stopped
castle.
on
that
condition
panes
it nectar
applaud
Still,
riding
tumble-down
they
declare
and
her
in which
food
he
accept
and
; he
find that
pretences.
creature
the Trolds,
palace
him.
up to
of make-believe
king's daughter
the Trold
splendid
glorious
is
transmogrifying
the
ragged
mother's
broken
window
old clouts,
her among
to
thaumaturgy,
his
accepts
with
as
appears
same,
within
only
lies and
of
point.
certain
by
realities
path
world-will
as
well
than
more
nothing
of squalid
like
as
the
Then
it
for
round
he
spite
Gynt
Peer
without
his
will cut
All the
of fate.
forward
will go
51
and
himself
mountains
of business
ready
for
The
52
trade,
In
speculation
profitable
any
trade,
whisky
this
phase
himself,
like
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
he
Mr
trade,
missionary
to
takes
Stanley,
piety,
persuades
is under
the
is shaken
This
opinion
of God.
in which
he is marooned
on
an
adventure
it is not
African
coast
; and
restored
until
friends
treacherous
who
his eyes
before
him
marooned
by the blowing-up
when
is
Father
desert,
him
moves
really worshipped
people
Arab
an
declare
to
only
finds
He
is accepted
and
by
Messiah
the
me
is not."
certainly
in the
to
for
of his money.
reflects, his eminence
him,
his falling
after leading
in
him
love
with
into
every
rica
in Ame-
breast-pin,
the
too,
mere
he
as
a
prophet
whilst
fitness for the post.
natural
pure
matter
is eminent
This
is ended
dancing-girl,
sort
more
horse
the
and
spoil, and
leaves
him
once
more
he
of
by
who,
of undignified
from
ludicrous
ranging
extravagance,
and
hailing her as the Eternal-Feminine
of Goethe
the
Ah,
which
last he is
commerce,
was
"
success
whereas
chance,
by
of the
economical
at
his
In
symbol
now
respected
stroyed
de-
horse
white
its account
as
tribe,
himself,
the
on
that
the
are
have
they
just stolen from
yacht
his celebrated
he utters
exclamation,
steam
he
by
care
special
God
anything
and
he
that
Bible
trade,
slave
"
her
runs
his
to
his
white
away
with
helpless
and
Gynt.
Peer
in the desert.
alone
to
the
Sphinx
the
in great
gentleman
immovable,
his
ideal, is able
own
that
once
at
dazzles
explanation
realization,
a
invites
of learned
club
this
on
man
gentle-
after
who,
to
some
self-
of
him
accompany
Cairo,
are
who
German
to
ripe
Peer,
question.
very
the
club,
in which
be a madhouse
to
turns
out
which
locked
lunatics
have
loose
broken
up
and
the
their
keepers.
It is in
these
madmen,
that
accompanies
he
As
Peer
lies in the
an
old
of his
scenes
the
prospect
madhouse,
Gynt
threatens
self
by
crucible
with
Immediately
is
fainting
dust
early
adventures,
with
Gynt,
Peer
to
into
button-moulder
commit
and
by
last
crowned
their homage
terror.
to
returning
is troubled
certain
button
the
with
moulder
of his realized
short work
it down
into
buttons
in his
make
heap
of
an
button-material.
other
is changed
at
receives
man,
melting
will
He
of meeting
who
Gynt
this
of Himself
Emperor
as
the
This
itself.
philosophy
in
men
for enlightenment
delighted,
is
Gynt
Peer
of
symbol
Sphinx
the
of
German
the German,
discussion
further
to
the
figure,
tell the
to
who
passive,
that im-
in
seeing
to
as
perplexity
majestic
comes
finds
he
which
Gynt,
Peer
is.
until he
wanders
beside
Sphinx,
great
German
He
53
of the self-realizer
unspeakable
Death,
to
any
act,
avoid
even
dread
of
whom
to
pushing
the
Peer
a
The
54
drowning
from
man
shipwreck
At
two.
his youth
in him.
last he
into the
commonplace
the
confederate
crowningly
he
has puzzled
Gynt
fantastic
thesis.
It is
its suggestions
and
far
the
recognizing
treatment
of
be
to
proposition
he
who
dismisses
is perfectly
that
"
it
as
the
reader,
less formulated
in metaphysics.
it is idiotic
term
ambitious
him, much
one
in
he
the
finds
common
When
does
it
its
familiar
the
by
by
the ideal
may
it is because
because
people
many
good
subtle
by some
it is stated to him
it, he unhesitatingly
of
and
can.
all understood
as
in
bedlam
the
so
of unconditional
at
best
as
Ibsen's
sense
sham
the false
speculator,
self-seeking
button-moulder
"
of
shirking,
by the
only
and
sensuality,
veiled
With
liar.
born
fancies
this
of the
unreal realization he is left to face the
romantic
so
in himself,
; whilst
dupe,
woman
old
"
cowardice
and
of
sweetheart
still believing
Gynt
Charleston
in
to
man
the selfish thruster of the drowning
is nothing
heroic
waves,
there
nothing
emperor,
is not
deserted
dancing-girl's
the
prophet,
Peer
braggart,
the
magicians,
Peer
is cHnging
suffice to support
not
finds
ideal
loafer, the
but
he
spar
for him
still waiting
and
In the imagination
of this
finds the
the
the
lest it should
he
Quintessence of Ibsenisin.
as
understand
idiotic ;
right
in doing
most
accurate
such difficulty
ideal of his
Gynt.
Peer
own
the pushing,
prototype,
loving
man
There
method
is nothing
novel
reducing
these
of
Exactly
Cervantes
as
chivalry, and
to
as
act
ideals of Brand
in the very same
if he
were
distressed
in
land
acts
world
where,
to
by
spirit
tower
of
restoring
man
the
walked
with
tries to
act
Babel
God
be
could
over
all other
only,
signals
resolution
are
Cervantes
man
straight
prevail
nor
their
the
against.
Ibsen
force
special
as
to
prevail
the
they
eyes
rocks
Observe
is incredulous,
real
are,
disregard,
may
on
he
which
Peer Gynt
in
where
as
be, thereby
ignore
shutting
brave
can
and
between
structure
to
so
They
forces.
promise
all com-
bridge
a
in him
had
immediately
; and
garden
concentrated
steering
neither
in the
they
what
like Nelson,
that
condition
if he
as
that
ignore
the
to
man
gentle-
wenches
in
Adam
was
was
and
of giants
rejectionof
enduring
intended
as
acts
farm
rainbow
as
them
treats
perfect
it
the
takes
country
"
the
into
of
attempting
Quixote
and
resolute
change
man
world
the
were
ideal
old
and
of
imperfection,
"
flesh and
instead
if he
with
possible
in
knight
absurdity.
Ibsen
so
Don
innkeepers
of
as
of
Gynt,
Peer
to
the
real,
manner.
perfect
damsels
Brand
ideals
came
were
and
world.
of the modern
dramatic
in Ibsen's
took
what
shewed
if it
success-
competitive,
is the hero
who
55
"
not
to
but
that
the
insanely
no
that
in the
The
$6
Philistine
all three,
ideals
to
as
way,
Don
men.
the
men
of action
in deeds.
power
Brand,
Quixote,
to
are,
their
realize
Don
ridiculous
dislike
cannot
over
Gynt
Peer
seeking
you
ideals
of
and
However
himself,
makes
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
ote
Quixdespise
or
him,
have
less think
been
it would
that
much
like
better
for him
have
been
Philistine
to
a
Sancho
is not
Gynt,
Peer
; and
selfish rascal
Brand,
unlovable.
he
as
by
terrible
made
is,
the
to others, is heroic.
of his idealism
Their
beautiful
more
than
castles in the air are
live
cannot
mortar
; but one
castles of brick and
in them
into pretending
men
they seduce
; and
consequences
that
hovel
every
Gynt
is such
that
pretended
the
castle, just as
Trold
king's den
Peer
was
to
the
palace.
AND
EMPEROR
When
Ibsen,
impulse
creative
Bi'and
produced
does
case
Peer
and
come
the
poet,
save
died
in
would
great
only
he,
have
gone
rationally
Gynt,
he
more
that
like
to
rein
had
nature,
was
produced
forty.
nearly
work, had
for his intellect.
In no
puzzle
out
1867,
poetic
his imagination
difference
the
intellect
his
the
giving
merely
of
will, in setting
His
ever
by
GALILEAN.
between
to
clearly
of the lover.
many
his
understood
another
grave
his
Had
great
without
own
Ibsen
poet,
having
meaning.
Emperor
Nay,
if in
that
commentator,
and
he
him
offered
himself
the
as
maiden
to
her
dreams
only
the
The
her
give
the
to
goes
naif who
fairy
the
constructed
would
disgust
much
brutal
were
It is
prince.
artist with
creative
in receiving
confidence
absolute
his " What
does
mean
this passage
of
rationale
physiological
a
he
he
Duck,
Wild
meeting
of
which
before
at
"
Ibsen
to
of Brand
arrived
and
expert
gone
it with as
repudiated
feel if anyone
would
have
enough
had
"
explanation
have
must
Ghosts
perhaps
call him
we
57
intellectual
an
year
as
Galilean.
and
an
to
answer
"
is
That
intellect,
the poet's own
which
had no part in the conception
of the poem,
which
him.
And
be asking
this curiosity of the
may
the
question
very
intellect
this
"
it from
dead
of the greater
a
drama
him
yet
and
Cressida,
he
rose
up
the
marks
in Hamlet,
made
of
Shakespear,
the
so
troubles
which
one
that
self-questioning
tiates
differen-
in
came
equally
Dante
Goethe.
did
greatest
took
poets
many
volumes
has
left musical
of
of
criticism
scores
; and
has
day,
of
he
art
Troilus
understand
Wagner,
Richard
own
purpose
of
to
pains
our
as
well
of his Henry
pessimism
vulgar
upon
alarm,
by
of the
and
against
than
himself:
it which
little, is
his intellect
when
F., and
but
sort.
of the
it might,
as
machinery,
lesser artists
our
life in
restless
and
has
one
left
us
life
as
expressly
58
The
Quintessence of Ibsenisni.
described
how
the
brought
in
to
the
find Ibsen,
their
on
entering
intellectually
conscious
have
that
seen
became
effort
drama
of
thing
itself creative
occurred
he
this
harked
with
piece
dilemma
that
he
he
who
moral
free-will
have
comes
life, though
he
cannot
of death.
Judas, who
necessity,
wants
Master
This
chose
part
of
the
dogmatic
doubt,
know
chose
drama
has
evangelicalism
it was
could
what
still a
not
the
"
God.
because
because
slay
to
stage
the
claim
ground
is the
ground
the
under
of
same
the
since
whether,
him
foreknowingly.
no
invent
to
evangelicalism
whilst
death
he
It is easy
Julian.
above
to
the
betrayed
the
on
presupposes
man
willed
say
to
him,
dramas
willed, willed
upon
same
abandoned
freethinking
sets
he
first preoccupied
at
is fertile, and
murder
an
responsibility
must
and
the
Emperor
the
of
him
because
himself,
was
that
that
slew
must,
huge
an
such
produced
to
of old-fashioned
free-will, and
Cain,
back
two
find
we
work
done.
Ibsen
With
questioning.
had
and
matic
dra-
become
to
Shakespear
with
he
do
so
great
struggle
of what
was
Just
his two
a
he
which
dramas
creation.
after composing
poems,
We
activity
of his music
analysis
during
abeyance
we
intellectual
cannot
nine
solve
very
deep
conundrums
answer
days'
significance.
which
; and
wonder
all enigmas,
no
that
such
Emperor
invention
the
to
seemed
Galilean.
and
be
chess-play
the nine days
that
now
deeper
much
something
intellectual
mere
59
it is
which
are
than
In
past.
for such
occasional
weakness
conundrums,
later on
in his harping
on
the hereditary
of disease,
busy,
own
of
not
only
plays, but
the
middle
advanced
Leben
Helmholtz
and
our
was
in
this period
knew
the
cares
of
crushing
fell on
for the
moment
of
the
traces
well
the
which
for money
struggle
of
he
sordid
and
to
mean,
an
not
effect
the growth
the
of
survival
fittest brought
by the destruction
about
frightful examples
most
prominence
Church
the
with
ings
sweep-
how
show
utmost
weapon,
The
with
but
man,
of the
of this
protested
the
with
writings
ley,
Hux-
and
vainly
omnibus."
of
the romance
when
discredited,
and
progress
was
spirit
reading
the world
creeds
of the
the
peopled
ordinary
respectability
by
Tyndall
novels,
weight
his
typical
the
"
as
Ibsen's
the
the
Eliot's
to
popularizations
by
Darwin
intellect
pessimism
and
when
the
transmission
peculiar
attainable
Jesu,
his
and
active
problems
fatalism
century,
Pentonville
of
the
the
Ruskin
by
against
of
with
George
and
seemed
the
culture
Strauss's
of
with
of
Ibsen's
see
we
seen
by
those
Mill's
with
incompiatibility
divine
being
who
favourite
benevolence.
of
thrust
His
ing
fight-
were
divine
into
dialectical
tence
omnipoplays
are
6o
The
full of
the
for
self-assertion
intellect wholly
from
That
validity.
at
increase
in
existence,
reverse
the
that
"
as
it has
is
true
by
stopped
his
too
that
with
genius
far
as
ridiculous
be
pessimism
of
him
past
it ; and
reducing
can
one
been
he
guess,
demolished,
by
ease,
the
"
to
it is impregnable,
that
it has
place
completely
It
himself
pushed
as
just the
himself
fortress
intellectually
as
allow
gloomy
:
of
Huxley
not
of
conditions
Ibsen
Professor
did
continuous
taking
actually
escaped
the
dreaming
an
was
this
materialism
it, but without
the
assumption
he
and
of
is, on
escaped
that
hypothesis
of
what
have
to
appears
severity
of
his
freed
acceptance
it only
the
on
all
an
fatalism;
numbing
have
to
seems
of
into
individual
the
this
never
sense
overwhelming
rousing
against
he
yet
his
of
evidence
necessity
and
Ibsenisin.
Quintessence of
and
mere
not
that
march
by its
class, which,
freedom
from the characteristic bias of the middle
illusions,
their characteristic
classes, has escaped
behind
him
of the
working
many
and
of
solved
found
insoluble because
His
so.
growth
prophetic
of the
reference
; but his
the
the
they
belief
will makes
to
enigmas
wished
in the
him
operation
impression
of
which
the
to
find them
spontaneous
meliorist
of
they
natural
light
out
with-
selection
by
thrown
Emperor
life
at
be
to
seems
he
which
the
have
must
most
one
period
in
his education
nature
often
destructive
and
ruthless
of
the
of
received
External
facts
the
on
science
gloomy
departments.
these
her
biological
and
physical
6i
Galilean.
and
plays
his
in
part
fascination
have
an
extraordinary
which
works,
for the pessimists
of that school, in spite of the
incompatibility
that
with
of his individualism
Man
ethic
utilitarian
mechanical
the
as
treats
circumstance,
and
every
of
sport
of theirs which
ignores
in
dramas
Ibsen's
anyone
own
has
who
faith
stage,
doubt
as
wrongly,
until
such
conscience
appeal
to
found
The
he
Scripture
finds
In
simple
the
the
man,
acting
by
text
seldom
against
to
the
justifya
in practice to be
an
in
when
the
endorses
which
conduct
to
excuse
Bible
the
except
of
or
rightly
contemplated
attempt
revelation
searching
arise
point
rule
theological
as
pious
; and
of conduct
the
is
secular,
misgivings
revolts
or
pious
he is
whether
his migivings
quiets
his action.*
As
the
will,
our
about
is accepted
Bible
of religious
change
concern
standard
to
Scripture
"*
the
God's
of
ideal,
a
as
our
unquestioned,
to it.
conform
is to
when
how
by
easily
understood
observed
An
used
practically
it remains
whilst
right
be
intensifies
salvation.
of
will
feature
prominent
the
when
action,
an
is generally
a
crime.
The
62
has
no
tests
did
if everyone
be
as
by
the
calculating
happiness
greatest
by
judging
"c.
Most
"c.
pass
to
in
men's
perfected,
in
and
a
Life,
activity.
Emperor
Julian'scase
It is compared,
with
men
the
the
being
wrath
necessity,"
are
find
the
regarded
in the
cases
manner
Cain
of
as
so
theatrically
exciting
suspense
to choose
between
forth.
effective
as
to
right-
keeps
them
casuistry
drama
conscience.
Judas,
"corner
The
in
Christ and
described,
the
three
stones
under
freedmen
under
qualms
producing
whether
of
first with
already
and
yet
the
of
"great
necessity,"
and
to
at
case
as
not
is
of intellectual
is very
Ibsen,
occupied
introduced
of
Bible
double
great
Galilean
and
the
which
by
depicted
as
We
full of it.
as
do.
instance,
reason
of
branch
important
most
of
amid
perplexity,
in
for
of their actions
wrongness
the
that
to
to
want
as,
uncertainty
continual
seems
in
is
others,
of
enough
really
infallibility
the
faith
and
shattered,
ness
in
faith
when
he
or
successfully
transition,
of
action
of
kind
they
everything
ingenious
this
the
number
liberty
equal
of
periods
greatest
are
examinations
respect
But
the
men
such
on
action
liberty
the
infringes
claiming
the
of
his
of
effect
whether
to
conduct
it would
how
after Kant,
he proposes
do ; or
to
himself,
asking
his
brings
authority,
as
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
he
the imperial
of
Julian
the
will
most
dare
purple
Emperor
but
the
mere
he
when
Emperor
Maximns
forces
the
Christianity
longer
no
longer
back
"
"
"
The
empire
of
of his
Man
not
God
is
be
nailed
he
between
this
He
in
the
nor
unknown,
will tortured
and
baffled.
first part
of
the
double
prompted
step
he
and
by
step
not
the
no
going
can
the
eternal
but
build
selfheart.
for
"
the
validity
that
cross,
to
or
at
looks
see
man
not
in
on
self
him-
Brand's
which
flesh
spirit
starved,
Thus
the
ism.
sensual-
rotten
drama
to
no
Julian
Christian
he
flesh and
empire
is
pagan
the
who
is the
the
third
that
of
is what
to
is
that
and
there
is
that
"
asserting
will.
Olympus,
bridge
empire
own
Christ
is already
"
third
truth
that
and
beauty
new
empire,"
second
idealism,
The
not
knows
as
who
between
Paganism
old
the
first empire
the
abnegatory
the
between
Maximus
to
"
and
but
Maximus
between
"
between
true,"
is
It
been
Mistake
The
named
Pretenders.
have
might
had
The
or
Julian, not
on
beautiful
himself.
Galilea7i
principle
"
to
Brandy
of
Emnerne
Mystic.
choice
and
ambition
Kongs
and
the
struggling
production
if prosaically,
appropriately,
of
the
his
wrote
man
before
even
passed
63
and
intellectual
of
phase
of
exhibition
his ambition
between
Galilean.
and
nor
throughout
we
have
stupendous
Galilean
shall
is God.
the
the
Julian
tion
convic-
His
The
64
Ibsenism.
Qiiintesse)ice
of
final resolution
is expressed
to
seize the throne
in his interruption
he
of the Lord's prayer, which
hears
by
intoned
in church
he
as
worshippers
in the
wrestles
gloom
fears and
own
At
but
deliver
with
his
into
not
he
evil
he halts
Yet
follower
adding,
the
and
the
on
the
on
dazzled
Julian
throne
its rites.
he
half grasps
relapse
becomes
Has
that
he
only
did
he
Plato
any
eye,"
"
god
by
mean
long
Plato
not
that
?
mean
can
Far
incomparable
individual,
"c.
In
even
ago
me
though
the greatest,
this frame
vanity.
of mind
this,
as
truth
the
?
men
it from
sage
grotesque
ludicrous.
most
Answer
saying?
be
to
only
enunciated
over
rule
exaltation
speeches
his
at
mity
confor-
monstrous
such
mere
nically
mecha-
Maximus,
it into
and
Gynt
of
of
pervert
making
Peer
of
worthy
"
meaning
and
him
have
We
the
moments
superstition
of
mixture
his
In
presently
and
glory."
the
points
kingdom,
the
church
is the
mine
Sallust
and
"
the
threshold,
*'
by
power,
Once
his
as
For
exclaiming
of his
decisive
temptation
to
rushes
"
soldiers,
declaration
the
us
final
the
his
with
threats
and
take
"
from
light,
the
to
Lead
cue
us
kingdom."
by
"
the
catacombs
entreaties
him
urging
soldiers
step.
the
the
of
What
did
me:
to
he
what
that
assert
was
"
had
in his prophetic
Christ
appears
Emperor
him,
to
Maximus
over
to
think
hearts
lip honour
that
excesses
wildest
his saving
sense
demands
Galilean
the
of
as
"
Tell
can
only extort
force ; for in his
he
loses
so
never
of things
for the
of persecution
me
who
the
"
fruits
he
conquer,"
shall
"
to
as
realities
Maximus,
of
in the
still reigns
egotism
of the
the trophies
faith.
of
himself,
of
prototype
men
of
mistake
65
have
him feel, but as a rival god
would
he must
It galls
prevail at all costs.
whom
him
the
as
not
Galilean.
and
the
or
emperor
Galilean?"
"
Both
the
succumb,"
time
so
emperor
Maximus.
says
in
or
hundreds
Galilean
the
and
I know
of years
He
child
man
yet
know
neither
I have
You
emperor.
child
prey
in the youth
succumb
the
never
empire
"
from
of
to
tried
of
becoming
and
the
man.
You
policy
your
as
the
make
hinder
to
emperor
perishes.
youth
of the spirit.
final, any more
growing
nor
empire
Julian.
Both
approved
have
The
again.
to
child
; but
;
shall succumb
Does
the
not
perish.
in the
and the youth
therefore
shall not
you
"
not
our
comes."
both
up
shall swallow
who
Galilean," replies the seer.
but
in
"Whether
it shall be when
the right man
is the right man?"
"Who
says
"
shall
youth
flesh is fallen
But
the
empire
the youth
from
youth
than
the
Oh
fool, who
a
a
66
The
have
be
drawn
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
sword
your
that
against
is to
which
in which
the third empire,
the twinhim
For
a
the Jews have
shall reign.
against
"
natured
call him
They
name.
Messiah,
are
and
waiting
for him."
Still
idea
Julian
into
entering
without
the
on
stumbles
threshold
He
it.
of the
is galled
out
by
the
of all comprehension
rivalry
of the
Galilean, and
asks despairingly
who
shall break
his power.
Maximus
Then
drives
lesson
the
home.
Maximus.
other
Julian.
that
or
The
the
and
Maximus.
Maximus.
Maximus.
God
in
God,
of
that he
begotten
the
spirit
the
in the
man
Maximus's
use.
relations
persistence
shews
no
exactly
Julian is
empires,
in Logos.
Pan
is self-begotten
He
"
of
this
God."
am
two
of the
in Pan,
is he
it is of
But
preach
Emperor-God.
How
"
not
God-Emperor.
Logos
"
Julian.
is I
God
Messiah
The
The
"
did
Nazareth
of
"
"
Julian.
none
is what
the emperor
makes
less.
power?
?
The
Not
Messiah
the Jews'
empire
the
world
have
that
third
but
seer
said
And
shalt
yes.
"
"
he
Julian."
Messiah,
yes
The
"
Thou
written,
me
Yes"
"
Maximus.
god
"
but
gods
"
it not
Is
"
in
same
which
sense
idea
not
only
as
that
who
is
wills.
a
synthesis
is Christ
in which
but
not
comprehended
the
syn-
Emperor
all, but only
flatters his own
thesis
is only
part
and
Maximus
as
valid
has no
in
such
and
parable,
know,
How
do you
him
only
fleet
to
on
earth
lives within
the
my
will
burning.
In
that
were
not
He
can
winds,
his
of burning
has
than
the
swirling
is burning
to
become
lies within
creation
glowing,
Galilean
crucified
as
to the
spirit
flesh and
of
third empire
the Messiah
of the
The
me.
sort
"
commands
I feel that
is here, Maximus.
it,
does
vain
you
persecute
utter
synthesis,
questions
in the excitement
exclaim,
"
The
the borders of Persia,
to
and
him
wreak
this
from
every
Julian,that
now
you
whom
in
In
it
of
the
of
pregnant
"
in
since
Julian.
lesson
his
And
isolated
reality when
repeat
part
constituent
itself convince
by
it cannot
egotism.
6y
that
on
seized
at
which
Galilean.
and
ashes
fleet
is
pyre
the
; and
the
is burning
the Galilean.
with
emperor
earthly
But from
the ashes
the
shall arise, phoenix-like,
God
in
one,
has
one,
in
that
the
and
Persian
he
and
is
is
point
whose
burn his
to
a
manifest
broken
when
his first desperate
the
the
refugee
last emergency,
sacrifice to
of
which
him
the camp
moment
his camp,
to
At
one."
emboldened
fled from
that
the Emperor
and
of earth
Persians
To
is informed
tion
informa-
In his next
exclamation
"
gods.
he
ships, has
From
spy.
man.
the
in
spirit
what
fall upon
is
gods,
vow
oh
68
TJie
fool ?
"
and
they
that
god
"
"I
I
"
hear
me.
and
from
response
he
to
or
; and
himself
must
other
fight, clinging,
leads
oracle which
into
the
him
suppose
he
need
fear
in
the
fighting
madly
to
his
"
his
believing
the
Julian has
is
follow
who
fly in
back
from
hast
reply
nothing
to
the
side,
Jovian
as
all directions
a
vain
dies
Cresar
charges
whilst
free
pagan
Galileans
the
that
their
of whom
The
and
is
open
with
Galileans
of
on
what
are
rescue
god
he
down,
soldiers.
he
is
the
the enemy,
Julian, sinking
"
Thou
Galilean."
oh
conquered,
Julian
that
out
Roman
strongest,
the
slave-soldiers.
crying
own
heavens
rallies the
in
; and
Jovian, calls
give
the
to
coming
made
the
on
to
the
sees
is struck
of his
general,
"
regions
enemy
he
one
that
fire, he
of
legions,
him
brethren
angels
swords
reach
Declaring
Caesar's.
and
of
Christian
one
the
ranks
of Christ, by
name
Then
ambiguous
that
Nazarene
in the
surely
this encouragement
with
to
to
he
many,"
like Macbeth,
an
this god
sonie'Jiing zvitJiout me
to him
seems
of lightning
Hash
above
throws
to
; and
on
call
me''
above
One
they
are
sacrifice
"
must
Where
will sacrifice
will
desperately.
answers
"
cries Maximus.
are
what
Ibsenisni.
Quintessence of
in
quietly
Christian
to
repent
friend's
"
of
his
The
tent,
averring,
inquiry,
power
that
which
he
in
has
circum-
Emperor
which
of having
have
never
they
that
should
measure
He
"
the
power
the
Being
to
man
felt the
eye
Phrygian
an
who
had
been
as
heaven
is
way
to
in
others
within
that
full truth.
until
conviction
filled by
he
But
man
believes
in
of the equal
the
"
say,
YOU."
overflow
worth
of
that
seen
his
than
inasmuch
as
his
half
in
he
had
others.
conviction,
within
by
the
The
was
He
the
to
that
of which
rival will, he
vanquished
able
with
in his
for him."
third empire.
in himself,
but not
utterly
eye
whole
to
say,
able
with
kingdom
is
of heaven
been
great
region,
stronger
found
flash of insight
learns that the village
found
part, but
godhead
had
to
he
as
only
The
be
some
ings."
undertak-
Julian
it, not
conceived
but
will was
in
for
was
will
skill.
If
ambush
to have
which
he
"
is
he
when
something
individual
not
see
not
was
of my
which
human
of
he
the
It
him,
to
remark
issue
there
though
us,
outside
still does
Maximus,
conscious
am
the
governs
anyone.
wronged
I have not
pov/er
mysterious
where
best
the
wittingly
think
should
to
"and
says,
divinity,
of
used
6g
he
hands,"
in my
placed
is an
emanation
stances
Galilean.
and
he
ME,"
Galilean
kingdom
was
cannot
himself;
the
on
believe
for his
of his fellows
his conviction
of
must
of
his
The
70
own
of
Against
worth.
asceticism,
incited
rightly
less
much
was
able
to
tell the
the
fire,
rebel.
But
Maximus
even
to fulness,
at
the
for
him
bedside
be
can
that
As
prompted
the
point
the
the
be boiled
can
and
enlarge
he
which
by
himself
at
in
Emperor-God
"
can
Julian
himself
upon
water
the
What
misled
stimulated
his individuality
to assert
without
fill a half-empty
boiling
can
stimulus
is
Julian'ssoul.
bring
to
Judas.
and
Maximus
and
is his having
mystic
man
external
to
Maximus
answer
encouraging
no
; and
conscience
priest
shall
fate of Cain
as
prior
rebelled
prior conviction
peaceful
troubles
from
indispensable
to
world-will
by
Christianity
not
with
Ibsenism.
spurious
that
rightly
him
to
fillthe
not
could
the
starving
JuHan
conviction,
by
Quintessenceof
; but
just
no
well,
spirit of
man
the
can
self-beget
At
willing.
that
"
it is with
; and
will is to have to will
his lips that Maximus
leaves the
on
these words
is to come.
that the third empire
stage, still sure
point
to
It is not
Emperor
necessary
and
All the
intellectually
into
idealism
is
difference
instinctively
translate
Galilean
between
in this respect,
to
the
terms
of
reincarnation
projected
constructed
in
the
the
as
of the
of
antithesis
Julian,
realism.
and
is that
scheme
Peer
Gynt.
was
subject which
earlier
well
in
poem,
the
is
later
Emperor
history,
Peer
Julian
one
plus
did
Ibsen
interest
the
the
acceptance
Of
well
these
second
view
pin
stupid.
after the
been
aptly
often
his
all dealing
original
sayings
but
nothing
reject
Those
that
consider
from
attaching
at
words
their faith to
such
any
so
all, and
or
stock
stone.
"
current
now
written
the
with
egotists
This
excitability.
of
he
hold
field
the
Crosstianity,"
called, becomes
had
current
who
of Christ's divinity.
long
Ibsen
now
than
of those
most
them
to
attitudes
be
may
view
absolves
as
might
to
meaning
sensible
The
of
deepest
are
gospels
that
accept
who
him.
The
being
better
interpretation
paradoxes
superstitious
him
created
is obvious.
in
71
Mystic
the
understands
who
Christianity
eccentric
Maximus
plus
he
when
Ibsen's
of
recorded
Galilean.
and
it has
as
unthinkable.
three
effect
of
immense
idealism
intellectual
individua
on
imaginative
exceptional
was
dramas,
able to do
of his theme
whilst
his
was
consciousness
yet
by simply
incomplete,
self.
portraying
sides of himhas put himself into the skin of Brand,
He
Gynt, and
figures
these
of Julian ; and
of Peer
have
accordingly
belongs
to none
the
male
sex.
certain
direct
of his subsequent
There
flashes
are
vitality which
creations
of
it in
of
Rell-
The
72
in
Lovborg,
; but
they
ing,
sea
in
are
his
really vivid
having
For,
at
analysis
of
methodical
of,
personal
yet
as
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
Ellida's
flashes
only
are
his
completed
the
henceforth
figures
solar
and
last
from
stranger
all
women.
intellectual
he
idealism,
now
construct
could
illustrations of its social working,
stead
inbefore, blindly
imaginary
projecting
he himself
which
in interpreting.
Further,
had
experiences
succeeded
he understood
he could
the matter,
see
not
that
now
plainly
the
parsons,
romantic
adventurers,
thus
eyes
idealism
began
doctors,
and
and
deliberately
to
as
used
and
effectiveness
idealism.
No
more
the
sake
laughter,
of
art
tears
of
no
more
forms
fill the
public
critics,
it is
in
With
his
mischief
of
he
the
so
rapidly
that
their
for
verse,
or
life,abandoning
that
with
soon
secure
detailed
no
more
for
comedy
order
belly
to
to
produce
literary
the
east
declared
by
moral
of modern
only
his
seeking
true,
saints,
playwright
thenceforth
were
on
of
inculcate
plays
realistic prose
all production
skill
him
upon
as
well
emperors.
instances
opened,
crowded
writing
as
His
artist
attention
on
attack
for
tragedy
the
sake
of
specimens
critics
might
wind.
The
that
he
had
The
be
to
ceased
with
definitions,
took
his
something
fulfil critics'
to
than
of them,
notice
important
y^
he, having
talent
no
Youth.
of
artist ; but
an
do
to
else
League
thinking
not
to
write
play
about.
THE
OF
LEAGUE
of
this,
work
which
which
the
later series
egotist
snub
took.
Between
lawyer-politician
from
local
the
by
echo
the
form
Gynt
Peer
let fall
an
Youth
of
the
imaginative
an
ambitious
as
and
such
under
smarting
who,
landowner
previous
the
League
which
farcically
reappears
had
Ibsen
The
called
Forbund) in
Unges
young
have
about
determined
Galilean,
and
plays
realistic prose
ing
describ; but before
said
comedy
amusing
{De
to
seems
Emperor
and
be
must
word
YOUTH.
nate,
mag-
county
a
passionate
that he is cheered
Intoxicated
party.
progressive
himself
he imagines
a
this success,
with
leader of the people
of the
and a wielder
great
He
to a
narrates
engine
mighty
of democracy.
kings
he saw
in which
friend a
dream
swept
helplessly
mighty
with
over
the
surface
wind.
He
has
when
the local
he
receives
magnate,
of
hardly
an
whose
the
by
earth
achieved
invitation
this
to
friends, to
promptu
im-
dine
spare
The
74
his
feelings,
invitation
his
tack
in
soul
"
My
presently
he
whom
I must
exertions.
Meanwhile
anyone.
own
my
from
in beauty
life
trodden
the
and
by
only
lacquered
shoes
sink exquisitely
lightly and elegantly,
blunders
no
Yes
means.
the
of intrigue,
indeed
have
owes
is
play
enough
clever
to
Ibsen
the
rest,
entitle
the
something
League
The
"
'*
well
between
or
two
made
a
play
human
episodes
Here
to
of
conversation
battledore
an
make
distinction
what
aristocracy
yourself
you
of
feel
"c.
French
to
comedy
claim
his technical
construction
that
education
of Scribe, although
that
the
difference
Youth
of Scribe
being and
in the
the
at
game
an
deep
are
in its mechanical
between
chairs
laid to be
ingenious
an
in the school
playwright
it is hardly
to add
necessary
as
manners
in to
plumping
I feel for the first time
we
it by
reach
seem
arm
Dont
to it I will belong.
culture ; and
the refining influence
of the place," "c.
For
happily
come
Here
silence.
to
fine
are
like
into
help
it without
drinklife here, ing
reach
floors
the
dream.
marry
and
there
the
I shall get
enjoy
the very
the
on
forth
great
into them.
ladies
; and
shall
Here
:
The
to
I intend
I shall
and
goes
awkward
and
sunshine.
here
gracefully
moves
Ministry,
family.
honourable
rich and
the
of time
course
into the
pediaps
person
pouring
related
in the
the
drawing-room
magnate's
is this
goal
Parliament,
into
to
is
to
as
speech.
imagination
egotist's
he
the
friend
very
new
the
sets
opposite
him
misled
demagogue's
have
in the
at
aimed
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
the typical
and
is like the difference
a
last two
marionette.
acts
contain
One
the
Pillars
of later
germs
the
of
that
episodes
choice
would
any
In
it.
of
doubt
the
classification
here
alone
first of
ending
Ibsen
which
Society^
to
is the
history
of
society
to
of
shatter
one
to
bring
and
has
allowing
only
of
been
the
committed
an
excuse
love
man
in
its
the
Pretenders
Galilean.
and
first play
has
and
longer
no
his characters.
Bernick,
It
"
pillar of
taining
of the duty of mainof his father's famous
respectability
disgraceful
to
in
intellectually
(to
abstract
averted
are
we
The
shatter which
of the ideals of commercial
another
a
Karsten
respectability
shipbuilders
in
alone.
of
with
purpose,
into
in pursuance
who,
the
one
his
Youth
member
is the
who
didactic
project
"
firm
one
himself
needs
in
SOCIETY.
then,
as
these
stand
Emperor
OF
own
must
beginning
with
writes
his
mastered
to
realistic plays
farcical
PILLARS
of
the
it
place as
of heroic
plays
Pillars
form
of
concerned,
and
suitability
Ibsen
confirmed
The
League
chronological
group
the
to form
which
referred
by content,
with which
classification
a
75
was
comedy
Therefore
as
stand
prose
no
it
; and
plays
realistic
of Society.
bear
the
would
be
society
into
exposure
discredit
disrepute
by
not
had
he himself
affair in which
never
was
sinner, but of a theft which
been
as
at all, having
merely
alleged
for the firm being
out
at a
of funds
The
y6
Quintesse7tceof
Bernick
critical period.
idealizings
of
so
he
actress,
feels
feelings
the
shock
for his
own
clandestine
nobody
need
this method
the
security
or
on
to
the
else
to
into the
the
women
ideals
actress's
because
deny
As
he
emigrant's
have
no
play
she hears
he
for whom
wants
that people
same
can
to
its
easily
an
of
opportunity
way
back
company
and
There
are
three
schoolmaster's
First,
to
the
conscience
such
lies his
the
covered
dis-
see
little short
Rorlund
expense.
who
other
neglect
of
the
posure,
of his exdid and
put
happens
man
Bernick's
attractions.
daughter,
he
be
to
preserving
shaken
where
accordingly
opinion
in the
community
to
scandal
the
shame,
society
good
to
right
is all but
what
it would
that
and
married
at
community
America,
to
and
either
terrible
man.
against
;
has
the
his imputed
him
crime
at
intrigue
by
going
conceal
tells
the
of
another
be
himself
community
Bernick
and
foundations
the
and
of the
Unluckily,
moral
community,
However,
selfish gratification ?
intrigue
nobody,
will shock
since
know
of it. He
adopts
accordingly
tone
it
of Rorlund
example,
good
the
of
the
Rorlund
society,
health
of satisfying
moral
time.
to
to
abject slave
he falls in love
with
has
no
man
that
When
on.
an
schoolmaster
duty
influence,
social
certain
respectability,
about
and
is
Ibsenisni.
there
get
there
are
to
is the
America
not
good
Pillars
and
is heartily
she
is part
of
her
to
whom
for
the
because
to
her
already
tired
life in conforming
to
not
woman
her
promptly
third
is
her
snapped
liar to
truth
the
the
with
himself
is
piece
function
in
hold
the
life, as
at
sneering
of womanliness
the
man
the
The
play
woman
current
the
ideals
The
comic
that
the
true
pillars of
like
an
spirits
of
and
ideals
by
Truth
a
has
all her
phrase
idealistic commonplace
whose
is
"
to
for not
everybody
Freedom
of
he does
This
Bernick's
and
the
telling
personage
respectable
with
society,
The
who
ideal."
and
everything
concludes
and
of the
earnest
break
to
loves.
she
incidents
the heroic
and
resembling
he reads about
in novels
tales of
and
his
But
in
obvious
peevishness
dangerous
less
he
is much
than
idealist,
younger
hypochondriac
useless
by himself,
described
banner
her
schoolmaster,
free
break
about
up
the
naturally
fingers at
ideal
folly, but
the
with
master,
school-
wasted
advises
that
commit
with
and
Stead's
it is her presence
life ; and
the
Mr
earnestly
engagement
elope
by
to
she
and
happiness
her
on
condescends
has
second
The
reason.
her
sacrified
is engaged,
she
it
since
The
disgrace.
mother's
same
77
people,
of good
down
to look
their goodness
of
Society.
of
characters
adventure.
folly,
and
the
pious
Rorlund.
admission
are
the
so
sounds
which
that it is necessary
The
yS
to
the
by
nursery
convention
himself
Ibsen
Labiche
the
and
unflinching
them
recognition
idealist
not
as
to
rule
only
facts
do
mentioning
Ibsen
facts ; but
as
as
play,
that
you
that
truth-teller
occasion
Freedom,
from
as
full
university
slavery
to
Rorlund
DOLL'S
Pillars
police-court
not
accepted
as
took
care
next
typical
the
and
at
all
of
all
presently,
to
own
say,
shew
peril, and
his tongue
as
liars.
on
whole
The
word
freedom
means
ideals.
of
Society,
to
as
propagandist
circumstance
hypocrite
in
phrase, is
pillar of society by the
sense
of the
Accordingly,
represents.
time
of
HOUSE.
ordinary
he
masks
wrote
by the
play, is disabled
hero, being
fraudulent
a
which
tion
recogni-
and
mischief
hardly
The
recognition
he
them,
hold
trained
the
ideals.
air,
your
cannot
the
class
at
need
Unfortunately,
the
see
much
of
that
that
who
do
may
the
shall
do
such
all occasions
mentioning
we
must
on
the
ignore
idealistic
or
means
and
the
respectable
urges
to
dictates
facts
a
the
by
as
well
It
to
up
truth
these
of
hazards.
whole
bolster
have
which
satirized
facts,
of
conspiracy
those
of
as
play,
mean
not
dramatists.
comic
of the
as
later
does
truth-telling
of
in
other
abandonment
of
in this passage
Truth
that
add
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
make
his
idealist
Ibsen
irre-
A
from
proachable
idealist
the
House.
DolVs
of the ordinary
standpoint
House,
DolFs
In the famous
the
moraHty.
the
affectionate
terms
one
with
the womanly
belief that
and
children
loving
the most
has
she
is happy
attained
illusions
of all these
that
"
life of the
family
Helmer
Nora
Mrs
home,
the sweet
the happy
idealist's dream.
the
darling
woman,
In his little
citizen.
three
the
with
is
doll
the
owns
who
of society
father, and
husband,
pillar
model
household,
79
valid
she is
in
tion
realiza-
ideal
an
is an
ideal
that Helmer
and
mother,
wife and
if the necessity
husband
arose,
give
would,
who
A
{g.\v simply
her reputation.
his life to save
her effectually on
incidents disabuse
all
contrived
tion
One
these points.
of devoof her earliest acts
her
to
of
sum
broken
have
from
the
loan
unless
father
shortest
name
way
was
him
This
dying
at
to
who,
the
raising
a tour
make
As
his health.
to
than
go
that the
into
money
really obtained
her
to
make
refused
her father to endorse
induced
of the
secret
sooner
It
note.
out
herself,
moneylender,
down
who
she
the promissory
her
him
to persuade
moneylender,
the
restore
her father.
gift from
a
been
enable
to
necessary
to
of money
was
which
he would
was
has
husband
the
was
being
impossible,
time,
entire
though
took
the
writing
the
she
difficulty by
satisfaction
not
at
as
all
of
the
duped,
8o
TJie
knows
that
paid.
Then
she
he
in which
for
contempt
by
him
her
father's
husband's
own
eyes
serious
business
of
husband
belongs
he
her
be
that
to
to
plays
she
takes
to
borrow
the
that
the
with
dress them
her
the
fit person
self-satisfaction
to
of
bad
happy
to
has
learnt
to
to
mothers,
tell
not
train
coax
to
she
in which
the
bill, she
the forged
redeem
it from
due upon
the balance
She
home
the
on
the
her
which
way
and
are
of
is generally
to
family.
It
moneylender
ignorance
children,
nicely,
the
outside
he goes
When
influence
perceive
constitute
order
the
by
world
world
recognize
denunciation
dishonesty
commercial
traced
begins
her.
her
the
the
"
with
shares
to
the
circumstances.
her
destroys
that
putting
ridicules
not
committed
her
opens
and
would
the
in
contemptuous
formerly
himself
law
under
right
forgery
bill, and
with
hearty
persuaded
harm
the
on
the
influence
be
any
forged
the
uses
cannot
was
the bank
she, having
But
At
debt.
moneylender,
her
exert
scrivener's
of
the
there,
man,
name
was
manager
; and
to
at
be
to
surest
off the
paid
post
there
that
suggestion
is her
the
that
secret
is made
his behalf
on
she
in
is employed
the
often
nearly
obtain
force
Nora
Helmer
of
has
to
wishing
bill to
are
slaves
Helmer
this point
that
bills
forged
until she
work
Ibse?zism.
Quintessence of
care
she
sufficient
to
them.
In
resolves
friend
a
her husband
to
of
affection
her what
she asks
for her : that is, by
thinking
about
into
%\
House.
DoWs
by appealing
giving
his
to
of
all sorts
playing
into an amorous
pretty tricks until he is wheedled
has
This
humour.
without
adopted
plan
she
it, instinctively
the
takes
And
with him.
line with
least resistance
same
now
her
she naturally
declaration
of
the
result ; and
it at
explains
so
proud
now
from
love
unexpected
real nature
friend.
husband's
An
once
the line of
taking
him
her
to
is
the
shattered
she
herself
sees
as
ignorant
an
a dangerous
mother,
and a wife
silly woman,
kept for her husband's
; but she
merely
pleasure
him :
to her illusion about
only clings the harder
he is still the ideal husband
make
would
who
and
sacrifice to rescue
to kill herself
any
destroy
his
himself
to
own
to
hears
into
when
vulgar
for disgracing
mere
playing
mother.
family
rage
he, instead
life has
been
she
resolves
once
at
of
in
their
they
have
which
father,
and
him
then
and
husband
leaves
F
on
proposing
when
flies
on
that
sees
she
fiction
"
to
final disillusion
The
enough
naturally
heaps
invective
him.
ideal
So
reputation.
and
Then
doll's house
at
She
ruin.
him
allow
rather than
by taking
the forgery
forgery,
the
of
from
pursue
whole
her
save
comes
he
career
her
her
their
home
been
and
there in
wife
82
to
order
The
Qtiintessence
of
find
out
to
and
live with
a
children
again
them,
of
to
or
him
first cannot
they
were
course
at
duty
to
religion
gone
the shattered
as
most
and
husband,
her
;
; and
but
the
at
last
really happewed,
whether
to
come
as
potent
agreeable
home
has happened,
what
ideals over
her as
if
understand
flourishes
and
tally
fundamen-
not
position
he become
until she and
capable
honourable
more
to one
relation
another
He
that in which
they have hitherto stood.
than
at
some
gain
self,
her-
for
of things
reality
false, refusing
her
to
see
she is fit to be in charge
until
of
the
Ibsenism.
He
ever.
to
him
avoiding
to her
magic
more
pass
between
"
and
as
her
to
her
disguises
understands
is
has
what
to
alone
honourable
that
scandal
these
sits down
and
her staying
of
children,
of
he
even
that
"
the
presents
wonder
can
relation
ever
them.
GHOSTS.
In his next
with
attack
human
such
an
on
faithfully
Ibsen
as
to
its very
is the
the charge
and
useless
ideal, that
an
to
returned
uncompromising
marriage
beings
by
obscured
it is called,
play,
outspoken
sacrifice
his meaning
of
as
a
acted
model
sacrificing herself at every
Her
husband
thoroughness.
woman
wife
who
and
point
is
was
Ghosts^
obviousness.
story
of
with
a
man
as
has
mother,
selfless
with
83
Ghosts.
huge
capacity
Society,
in
his
marries
takes
model
in
refuge
the
him
duties
illicit ways.
When
her
devotion
caresses
self
him-
he
duty
to
he
; and
not
and
enjoy
for him
housemaid,
pleasure-loving
by
satisfy her conscience
ment.
enjoy-
to
wife,
life harder
makes
only
and
underhand
sensuous
ideal
prescribing
him,
drives
for
enjoyment
for
appetite
and
at
last
but
undutiful
leaves his wife to
an
of
and
his business
managing
best he
as
affairs whilst he satisfies his cravings
by reading
flirting, as
can
novels, drinking,
and
At
this point even
aforesaid, with the servants.
Helmer
indignant
are
those who
most
with Nora
for walking
out
Alving
that Mrs
of her
out
show
you
Mrs
doll's house,
so
were
Alving
worse,
husband
her
again
and,
herself
regard
as
requires
for her
an
scoundrel.
that
son's
as
she
sake,
demands
outraged
The
purity
that
she
wife, and
family
ideal
suffer in
silence,
life by
of home
his father.
It is her
truth about
the world
that truth from
and
the
pursuing.
her
should
never
for not
Nora
of
place is by her
by her child.
and
duty which
womanly
Now
should
line
scrupulous
with
feels that
for
admit
walking
is determined
to
Ibsen
angry
must
justifiedin
be
of the
comes
for better
husband
the
would
But
house.
what
you
conduct
of
duty
from
to
conceal
him.
In
Tlie
84
this
falters
only
she
has
marriage
in
Quintessence of
pursuance
heart
her
In
sake
to
leads
her
back
does
she
devotion
his good
that
She
vices.
She
provides
come
with
in
maid
at
brings
and
seduced,
stays
With
her
up
the
of
She
shields
him
to
respectability
of
nights
sooner
success.
the
or
listening
his
illegitimate
household.
She
shattering
gains
Her
the
of
into
the
his
has
daughter
And
his
work
esteem
to
ing
drink-
considers
he
servant
the
later.
and
she
her
sends
sacrifice, she
be educated
there, knowing
home
conformity
strictest
for
own
tremendous
imposture.
and
what
the
a
out
carries
of
from
duty,
of
even
and
silly conversation,
keep
him
him,
from
to
going
betraying
to
now
sits up
and
Paris
first discovery
swerve.
ideals
streets
crowning
named
and
with
her
of
path
citizen
current
life.
his lewd
as
idealism,
affairs and so
believes
everybody
public-spirited
family
man,
clergy-
husband's
name
to
the
lying
of
although
respectable
again
she
her
manages
family,
contracted
to
not
has,
she
daughter,
her
of
match
a
as
highly
refuge
scheme
be
love
duty
husband's
takes
utmost
so
Her
moment.
own
of her
the humiliation
and
which
one
professor
of her
once
the
inclined
Mandcrs.
house
her
of
it for
for
been
not
Ibsenisrn.
son
as
to
away
that
ideals
is
of
if he
must
crowned
her
old
Ghosts.
love
her
up
as
is brought
to
husband
an
in
the
and
enjoy
in
gratitude,
But
he
when
Oswald,
of
the
he
and
house
first shew
him
Paris
to
many
as
refuse
her
to
ideals.
dull
the
rainy
solemn,
duty
and
virtue
manhood.
facts
the
in
when,
so
early
inherited
where
for
their temple
his
of
correspond
has
son,
from
returns
ordered
to
ever
enjoyment;
of her
the death
most
home,
comes
as
obstinately
of
flower
the
martyrdom
reputatio
sanctified
from
her free to recall her son
his society,
his love and
and
odour
leaving
Paris
own
last by
at
end
of the
realization
Her
ideal of marriage.
Christian
tired of holding
is never
who
a beautiful
the
clergyman,
household
85
weather,
strictly
have
had
his mother
years,
sees
of boredom
familiar
from
with which
she is so
miserably
of
killing time over
the
old ; then sit after dinner
bottle ; and
begin
the unmistakable
finally
the
"
signs
climax
of
anguish
"
alone
there
is this worldwide
to
to
the
cases
did
not
the
intensity
nothing
from
of
else
him
that
he
moral
a
right
and
superiority,
to
be
happy
insight
She
son.
the
woman
Instead
disgust
her
the
loves
she
love.
pious
of
has
heart-starved
left to
with
consciousness
once
father
the
in
fiithcr and
the
of
love
difference
of
son
with
has
who
recoiling
Pharisaical
she
sees
in his
at
own
86
The
that
and
way,
be dutiful
her
and
the
driving
secrecy
and
diseases
son
now
bred
tells her
in
his
by
him,
on
mark
he
for him
he
as
he
shall have
is
until he
wishes
that
dangerous
with
her
if she
if he
loves
shall
half-sister,
on
leaves
house;
the
devotion
and
to
an
learning
is not
for
his
In
too,
When
struck
him
from
his
bright
champagne
longer
driven
life
as
to
of his life
her
shall marry
But
the
of his health,
state
to
him
to
tion
despera-
half-sister.
she,
poison
be
the dulness
the
going
invalid.
no
left
much
girl he
the
fifty times
were
daughter,
by
resource
as
her
have
carries
brain.
the
he
easily.
; and
Paris
so
foretold
time,
when
of
softening
with
unnatural
the work
diseases
that
the
surgeon,
life,
son's
quite
conditions
those
and
against
pocket
Parisian
down
such
that
life in
in
steal his pleasures
had brought
him
upon
to
by
the
finds that
undone
they
squalor,
the
their
father
the
her
false
joylessand
to
soon
she
to be
is not
ideals
that
the
and
lies and
of
wasted
be sacrificed
But
ideals.
In
fabric
monstrous
father,
unfortunate
has
she
which
She resolves
manufacturing.
of the
to
right to force him
in hers.
She
too,
sees,
no
wretched
of the
appearances
at
has
she
to
injustice
iniquity
Ibsenisni.
Quintessence of
is her
sacrifice
the
father's
her
mother
life in
and
%7
Ghosts.
left alone
are
son
home,
their dreary
in
with the
is
for him
do
all she can
before
him
to promise
that if his doom
overtakes
he can
himself, she will make
a final sacripoison
fice
her
feelings by performing
that
natural
duty, the first of all her duties that has
dreadful
Then
the weather
any
real basis.
clears up at
last ; and the sun,
has so
man
the young
which
of
longed
to
him
play
to
that
the
have
has
horror
by
come
one
she
him
at
glance
give
it to
shews
her
to
by
her
from
him
saved
before
years
her
asks
sending
just as
world,
; and
with
the time
real
He
appears.
ideals
the
that
see,
from
sending
out
of
nary
imagi-
an
him
out
of
Norway.
last
This
tragic
scene
that
the
emotions
the
meaning
of
discussed
like that
that
perceived
Walter
Mr
play
Ghosts
Besant
pattern
a
of all the
forged
daughter,
the
who
appallingly
prevent
being
seized
from
is to
Doll's
his
which
for
as
moneylender,
virtues,
bill in
intended
astonishing^
production,
Magazme
English
Illustrated
the
makes
so
it excites
An
Besant
is
of A Doll's House.
I know,
far as
seems
as
nobody,
Ghosts
of
repeat
terrorem
is engaged
to
to
House
own
will
be
son.
1890.
reformed
man,
The
land
Enghave
what
found
January
Nora's
and
"sequel"*
his
In
the
in
Mr
and
ing
hold-
grown-up
bill has
been
The
88
to that
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
to be.
play
he is
idealism
of which
But
professors.
Doll's
by
that
the
House
first performance
the
earlier
are
as
Manders,
to
sense
must
man,
this
by
sort
her
of
drink
to
taken
from
offence
his
position,
the
his
girl that
if she
in disgracing
persists
he will send
her brother
to
his
son,
the
dilemma
by
drowning
is given
to
this
is, that if Nora
had
her
daughter
also
by
the
would
writer's
never
have
naive
his
him
gaol.
An
away
play
having
wife,
from
drowned
by
She
evades
absurdity
moral,
her
of
the
marrying
which
husband
herself;
unconsciousness
and
tells
exquisite
the
to
tendency
Helmer
of
jeu d'esprit by
run
pretty
moneylender
herself.
never
good
newspaper
a
mother.
departure
an
of the
inherited
forfeited
social
as
the
the
after
duty
Pastor
to
them
"moral"
has
that
of
selfishness,
who
In
Helmer's
Fortunately,
brother,
the
shewn
as
to
with
of the
inevitable.
forged
I have
appear
disapproval
general
by
critics
critics
Helmer's
to
compared
conceptions
endowed
without
was
early
Besant
in this country.
ordinary
who
admirable
English
of this essay
Alving's
valid
faint
very
popular
Mr
on
that
of
most
made
of Ghosts
part
Mrs
since
of the
effect
the
on
produced
repudiation
one
was
to shew
attempted
of Nora's
come
might
what
Besant
Mr
the
and
fact
doing
as
over
the moneylender
represented
he did in the play, with
that,
the difference
again
what
become
he has also become
having
eminently
respectable,
that
he
has
remorseless
natured
fellow
scoundrel.
at
bottom.
Ibsen
shows
him
as
good-
Ghosts.
press
lengths
bedlamite
on
such
Archer,
Mr
William
the
to
went
that
occasion
known
dramatic
was
to
able
in
excesses
an
body
whole
by
simply
the
court
of
he
of Abuse
as
offers
Lexicon,"
are
idealist criticism
of contemporary
extracts,
Dictionary
"
here
reprinting
worth
its
Gazette
Mall
Wagner
the
hostile
a?id Gibber-
for
nucleus
well-
quoting
Archer's
Mr
upon
modelled
Pail
the
this
Ibsen,
of
of
Ghosts
article entitled
in
ings, which
appeared
1891.
of the 8th of April
which
translator
and
critic
put
out
criticism
89
Schimpf-
as
samples
of the drama.
Ibsen's
positively
This
Gliosis.
due
Reprobation
the
inoculating
done
act
doors
.
and
malodorous
Novel
Gross,
.
Literary
and
carrion.
perilous
(leading article).
bestial
open
a
dirty
and
cynical.
melancholy
and
loathsome
almost
.
nuisance."
"
An
;
Absolutely
.
all its
with
Candid
foulness.
Ibsen's
world.
fetid.
and
turned
.
unbandaged
open.
cynicism.
infecting
lazar-house
windows
Offensive
sore
after desperately
others.
and
at
aim
poison
with
loathsome
publicly
as
such
themselves
Kotzcbue
.
to
theatre
modern
drain
play
abominable
entitled
disgusting
representation.
This
putrid
Crapulous
"
mass
indecorum.
stuff.
Daily
Telegraph
of
vulgarity,
The
90
coarseness,
egotism,
Telegraph
.
and
(criticism).
Prosecution
piece.
Naked
absurdity."
Unutterably
"
Scandalous."
loathsomeness.
ingly
production."
suggestive
either
"
"
Morbid,
disrepute
dull
dirt
dulness
long
drawn
hideous
the
of
doubtless
Sporting
be
are
prigs,
It
.
an
in
Black
Ibsen's
"
Ibsen's
and
plays.
putrid
White.
.
"
Just
"
play
Characters
.
"
Most
Garbage
called
Morbid
of
more
nookshotten
a
of
play
W.
"
wicked
Lugubrious
profligates.
no
repetition
authorities
lethargy."
"
News.
is
Morbid
the
their
burlesque."
Gaiety
average
If any
Maunderings
Norwegians.
rightMerely
Ponderous
attempted,
and
into
"
pedants,
caricatures.
"
impropriety.
sordid
of
every
Gentlezvonian.
The
"
diagnosis
talk,
Dramatic
stage
Hawk.
"
from
wake
and
nightmare."
the
tale.
didactic
of the
ing
disgust-
Lloyd's.
"
out."
Queen.
"
and
with
woman."
and
of this outrage
will
work."
dishonour
man
horrors
degrading
uninterest
Chronicle.
Daily
"
and
acters
Char-
themselves,
unhealthy,
unwholesome
A
to bring
piece
story.
thinking
in
abhorrent."
and
Revolt-
contradictory
repulsive
"
News.
and
blasphemous.
and
or
dismal
Daily
"
Standard.
"
Most
.
repulsive
Daily
"
offensive.
Act.
Campbell's
Lord
under
Abominable
"
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
St
loathsome
and
"
Leger
of
offal."
Ghosts.
than
So
all
Truth.
loath-
Ghosts.
an
some
filthy
enterprise."
disgrace
to
Dull
dorousness
"
laid
and
"
malo-
with a trowel."
Stage.
as
corruption."
allowed
theatre.
Nastiness
thickly
on
Noisome
English
foul and
As
been
ever
an
of
disgusting.
and
Era.
has
as
boards
the
"
Academy.
"
concoction
91
"
DesciHptio7is of Ibsen.
"
"
An
egotist
fanatic.
crazy
Not
"
Norwegian
"The
St Leger
\sic\
W.
nasty,
discordant,
by
the
sunlight
his wrinkled
eyes."
the
of
aistheticism
Review.
Saturday
of the
"
Ugly,
A
dull.
.
sort
warm
''
White.
and
downright
on
for horrors
groping
Gentlewoman.
of
in petto''
pessimist
of ghoul, bent
like
night, and blinking
gloomy
in Black
and
Telegraph.
being.
cranky
but deplorably
dull."
dirty
consistently
Daily
"
crazy,
only
Truth.
"
bungler."
and
the
"A
Lock
teacher
Hospital."
"
Lovers
of
who
prurience
are
eager
dabblers
and
to
in
their
gratify
impropriet
illicit
Evening
the
under
pretence
of art."
"
Standard.
Ninety-seven
per cent, of the people
Ghosts
are
go to see
who
nasty-minded
people
tastes
who
their
"
find
taste
the
in
discussion
exact
of
proportion
nasty
to
subjects
their
to
nasti-
The
92
ness."
Sporting
"
females,
sexed
the
dogs.
muck-ferreting
women
a
women.
male
nasty
know
"
Chamberlain
that
illegal
an
left them
Educated
they
and
all of them
un-
sessing
unprepos-
of
Effeminate
They
alike
but
army
whole
The
the
woman,
in petticoats.
cranks
'*
News.
unwomanly
Dramatic
and
The
sexless.
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
"
men
and
men
and
doing
are
not
only
Lord
The
thing.
in Ghosts.
wallow
Outside
is not the slightest
a silly clique, there
interest
in the Scandinavian
humbug
or
all his
works.
After
ENEMY
this,
Enemy
domestic,
and
deals
sewage.
are
who
the
the
his next
play.
having
visitors
that
to
shops
and
When
an
ideals.
themselves
town
hotels
are
honest
appearing
The
in
concealing
which
customers
by
contaminated
townspeople
in
play
baths
and
doctor
ideally.
finger
his
middle-class
of
famous
their
the
puts
social,
interested
the
done
ordinary
ideals, he
pecuniarily
fact
of
understand
about
majority
this danger,
disguise
set
political
local
the
their
will
on
with
attract
PEOPLE.
among
puritanic
moment
people
THE
Truth.
"
of
execution
folly."
reader
Ibsen
sufficient
for
OF
the
in which
temper
An
of human
wave
AN
to
to
alone
insists
exposing
immediately
Feeling
their
on
true
the
advantag
dis-
character
Enemy
An
as
honest
they
man,
Democracy,
as
People.
as
the
soHd
93
rogues
Society,
pose
as
the
interested
of
conspiracy
of
The
as
Liberal
an
against
People,
Majority,and
ing
abstractions, the doctor, in attackbeing thereby
an
them, of course
enemy
made
to Society,
People, a danger
a
traitor to
of The
from
Liberal
Democracy,
an
the great
apostate
imposing
other
party,
and
in politics
part
situation,
Norwegian
Only
on.
so
those
take
who
an
active
can
which,
be
as
recognized
in England,
by the protypical
not,
perhaps,
fessional
literary critics, who
for the most
are
^diVt faineants as far as political life is concerned,
but
a
air, will
by
certainly
on
seat
everyone
the
once
at
has
who
committee
the
of
far
as
got
most
as
obscure
caucus.
An
As
two
Enemy
people
arc
an
government.
because
necessary
it has
limited
the
the
been
extent
are
to
or
anything
define
Democracy
by
the whole
which
certain share in the control of
It has never
been
that
proved
best
the
made
short
majority
one
contains
precision.
arrangement
given
this is ideally
of
People
of it with
criticism
is really only
and
the
democracy
to
which
references
but respectful, it is necessary
Ibsen's
the
of
arrangement
people
willed
it became
to
have
it ;
effective
of which
have
would
taken
the
form
of
Tlie
94
Now
actual
violence.
kings, they
to
it
an
faith
same
we
way
set
him
idealized
"
the
as
Pope,
to
making
was
always
in fact.
to
submit
In
the
majorities
Monsieur
pope,
submit
by
king
that
"
Voltaire's
up
to
themselves
have
who
had
men
when
consoled
article of
right
Ibsenisnt.
Quintessence of
Tout-le-
it blasphemy
Democracy
against
deny
is always
that the
right,
majority
It is a
Ibsen
that, as
says, is a lie.
monde,"
and
to
although
make
majority,however
eager
is always
developments,
or
of old abuses,
its opinion
of new
(for it can hardly
rather is always
unfit for them
in opposing
be said to be wrong
developments
for which
it is not
is
fit). The
yet
pioneer
wrong
tiny
minority
be
though
it is easy
wrong,
it is absolutely
majority and
to
be
yet
We
prospects.
were
in
as
for
collars
we
lead.
to
upon
time
and
shall
the heels
march
"
we
our
do
the
step
strongest
yet
be
in
the
social
all if it
still
on
saw
all
whither
declare
statesmen
they
when
off rusty
at
stand
clatter we
filing through
be
progress
Whatever
our
with
kicking
never
of
to
and
to
to
so,
; and
the newest
us
of
moving,
bound
to
never
should
for each
the
themselves
minority
as
right
until
were
heads
impossible
possible
democratic
principles
rest
he
force
the
of
are
called
may
make
feudal
serf
capitalistic fetters,
forward
at
except
man,
he who
is able
Enemy
An
"
to
stand
alone
damned
is
of members,
payment
but
on,
to
simply
machinery
no
motive
principles
that
number
vast
though
there
buildings
of
before
ritual is conducted
by a functionary
subjectto
be.
Church,
There
organization
as
such thing
invested
with
few
thing
such
any
Catholic
on
nor
may,
is
too,
collective
crowds
called
world
certain
congregations
called
a
to
need
in which
is
priest, who
all such
controlling
fore
points, there is not therein
was,
ever
be
as
reality
nor
highly
consciousness
above
him
on
the
ideal
the
ever
will
elaborate
is
there
than
no
abstractions
or
tive
collec-
individual,
pretence
validity
with greater
human
idols red with
eating
not be confounded
position must
the idealization
ous
danger-
is in the
public
affairs ; but
All
the ideal State.
set
authority,
duty from
exacting
or
The
as
We
of
thinking
no
council
central
functionaries
pure
mechanics,
of
of public organizations
or
that of kings
priests.
be reminded
as
absolutely
idealization
as
of them
in itself whatsoever.
power
so
and
economy
has
which
the
except
principles
and
machinery
"
of
suffrage,
reduction
social
the
All
parliaments
annual
in the
adult
of
wholesome
"
on
majority."
disparagement
no
95
back
his
turn
Liberal
compact
which
to
and
People.
the
of
and
of acting
he, are
man-
or
This
sacrifices.
with Anarchism,
of the repudiation
of Govern-
The
g6
Ibsen
ments.
as
an
the
"
round
fools as
the
far
as
committee
"the
the paving
An
Enemy
of the People^
the
of
incorrigible
the
with
his very self, and
idealized
direction
play
declared
that
was
called,
tragi-comic
such
that
his astonished
Wild
The
a
was
satire
on
fold.
he
Alving's,
had
Wild
The
a
back
come
household
The
in
handsome
in
move
sees
it
as
this
of
tively
plain-
victims
the
as
new
his former
works;
disappointed
so
began
to
to
the
repentant
which
is
Duck
one
about
becoming
were
Duck,
to
illusions, but
a
superstitious
illusions.
by romantic
happy
of it who
set
and
he had
pious, whom
by his interpretation
of Brand,
that
I have
as
slaughtering
the
severely
think
was
Ibsenism
whilst
empire
choicer
spirits,
idealists who
first
His
Ibsenites.
as
sham
third
Ibsen,
for dead,
ideals
those
of
exposure
known
of
DUCK.
WILD
beginning
had
not
for the
collect the money
and lighting of the streets.
the
does
but simply
STATE,
by
tax
him,
regard
that
something
THE
the
pay
to
supposed
of
THE
After
to
concerned) to
or
police
sent
Ibsenism.
refuse
did, called
(mostly
is
be
may
never
man
citizens
not
emissary
exist and
as
does
but
collector,
not
Quintessenceof
made
we
not,
introduced
are
like
Mrs
miserable
by
one
made
shabby
The
only member
good-
Wild
The
Duck,
97
better.
desires nothing
Philistine
natured
who
husband,
The
dawdler,
a
spoilt
petted,
vain,
high-souled
believes
that he is a delicate
and
man,
devoting
name
from
the
as
grandfather
he can
get
has
man
trees
the
into
play
drink
his chief
Christmas
can
by
it ; but
rabbits
a
procured
garret
The
himself
at
; and
a
sort
of
these
toy
hunting,
bear
is
of
crowning
duck,
wild
as
it is the
go
he
has
down
touch
is given
which,
however,
special
he
pistol
to
weapons
are
pigeon.
illusion
must
not
the
gun
occasionally
which
or
the
of
of the
one
was
rabbit
property
turned
forest, in which
which
off, and
old
second-hand
The
and prosperity.
of his youth
in the hunting
expeditions
employed
will not
brings
ful
wonder-
The
sports
which
father
whenever
pigeons.
number
with
he
when
daughter,
disgraced
resource
and
himself
in her
invention.
cheers
full of
garret
Their
intensely
believes
promised
day
an
This
making
some
inspiration.
necessary
in the
inventor
great
and
to effect by
he proposes
famous
it by
on
for breach
imprisonment
has
brought
disgrace
the
redemption
be
by
shot,
girl, who
and dreams
cooks
and
whilst the woman
besides
on
the
carrying
washes,
photographic
is supposed
to be the business
of her
which
work
reads
husband.
She
does
not
G
appreciate
his
highly
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
The
98
; but
fact
other
then
he
a
lodger,
upon
"
has
doctor
not
doctor,
thrown
break
must
he is daimonic,
for
into
above
lodger,
He
domestic
this
fits because
drinking
which
explanation
idealist
an
the
the
accepts
troubled
his
He
he
hero
from
father
not
to
was
marriage,
; and
lie, like
He
as
relations
know
that
to
be ; but
of
the
the
man
ideal
an
of
enthusiastically
the high-
and
himself
constitute
theory
he
is
and
marriage.
before
woman,
her
of his own
cast-off mistress
husbecause
told her band
she has not
this, he
a
the
type.
advanced
photographer
new
comes
daimonic
the
supposes
because
wife do
happens
most
drunkenness,
clergyman's
souled
the
of
swallows
greedily
there
circle
the
says
gentleman
relieves the reverend
completely
tippling.
the imputation
of vulgar
Into
of
another
Relling
Dr
Molvik,
interesting
an
by
him
household
of the
away.
out
even
because
famous
now
lesson
the
whom
been
; but
drunkard
invented
the
clergyman
is tolerated
and
"
impostor.
idle
disgraceful
that
appreciate
and
hopeless
illusion
not
lazy
is
himself
respects
special
is
there
Molvik,
named
does
she
he
that
Downstairs
jars
agonizing
suffering
is constantly
which
her
from
garity
vul-
of character,
sensitiveness
strung
that
accordingly
the
her
conceives
of
Bernick
sets
in
himself
life
founded
as
Pillars
to
of
work
on
Society.
out
the
The
woman's
salvation
frank
between
relations
truth,
the
out
Duck.
Wild
99
the pair, by
then
and
domestic
more
his
bluster
on
the
impossibility
the
repudiation
of
home,
and
the
there
so
the
duty
freed
from
must
free
open
the
only
he
might
annoyed
; but
the
herself
with
girl takes
The
doubt
failings
their
; but
of the
own
if before
scruff of the
refuge
that
neck
in
deal
mischief-maker,
her
to
that
people
from
the
about
doll's house,
accord
that
and
the
Nora
if the
period
you
thrust
next
offers to receive
her
They
is
strong
she
door
will go
take
her
out,
stands
Woman
by
she will
establishment
her.
be
cannot
without.
When
themselves.
her
idealist
carrying
seeing
foreself-sacrifice, without
be taken
in mortal
earnest.
finds
thus
of it of
the kind
of
live out
to
take
good
beauty
busybody
enough
of the
talked
that
out
shoots
and
his wife
teaching
and
The
to
weak
honour
and
she
has
who
her
mere
is too
is merely
on
her parentage,
on
cast
heart
to
than
living with
ever
not
piece
wanton
outraged
woman
the matter
out
of his
the
; and
about
with
do
they
results
husband
The
scene.
act
again
serious
them,
asking
self-satisfaction,
whether
feel much
the better for it. This
has
ing
blurt-
simply
fatuous
of mischief
ideally
establish
of
has
The
lOO
two
thus
one
Quintessence of
one
new-fashioned
the
before
street
case
cognate
to
mere
you
what
of the
can
himself,
his exposing
of his internal
operation
him
no
as
impulse,
such
he
he is not
which
like Brand,
w^e
refrain
must
then
to
we
only
get
could
that keep
claims
on
rid
pestering
up
claims
on
at
evil,
quite
moral
every
if
tolerable
confounded
in
poverty
our
like
impatient
of the
us
to
or,
to
sight
Relling's
be
with
him
because
their
think
If
Whether,
meet.
with
them
that
put
claims
we
recommend
shall
must
compromise
assurance
we
is
do
obstacles
for the
wait
to
such
alike incur
"
life would
one,
sincere
can
you
make
prepared
make
external
you
to
because
Werle,
Gregers
beauty
be
would
yet
have
you
make
is
then
and
impulse
to confess.
It is useless
is.
the
he
when
all that
to
he has
measure
to
want
In
go.
and
of him,
man
to
police
hypocrite
If you
truthful
remove
is ready
liar and
him.
exposed
and
is
less
the
none
she
hypocrite
of
him
exposing
who
keep
to
wants
who
deal
to
enemies
Ibsenism.
duns
with
the
ideal."
of the
ROSMERSIIOLM.
Ibsen
did
subject of
people,
and
not
the
in
danger
TJie
Wild
Ditck
of forming
interfering in
the
exhaust
ideals for other
view
Rosinersholni
IO I
to
far
typical
more
lodger
of which
man
to
achieve
which
there is an
Ibsen
with
tendency
to
regard
one
the
and
"
to
as
not
fond
share
the
world
third
the play
Duck,
Wild
a
has
man
gentle-
been
for
of the world
by
performed
of him,
of the
any
of
human
I le is married
Indeed
race.
his dreams,
and
only
she
acts
fire of his
sacred
master,
brother
Kroll
the head-
the
wife, and
best people
the
fine
nature,
affectionate
does not regard
him
but
Kroll's
in
is
dim
some
with
empire."
on
extinguisher
idealism.
He, she, her
orbited
in
planetary
ing
help-
to
of such
ennoblement
for his nature
is a
an
circle of the
TJie
family
passionately
regenerator
does
herself
parson,
whose
at
the
of
is very
who
as
woman
country
for
career
noble
up
the
and
In RosDiersholm,
need
him
to
evident
he
looks
of
process
monopoly,
the ennoblement
be
to
operation
external
prevision
of trade
The
of social influence.
influence reinforces his priestly
that
very
the
regards
centre
of
himself;
it.
stock,
years
an
him
meddlesome
who
sort
followed
tradition
as
priest
as
unpractical
of ancient
many
the
of
a
pictures
who
loves, and
devotes
she
him
the
of
of mankind
his cloth gives
woman
clever
that
Cases
ideals.
those
realize
than
those
are
ennobling
the
to
them
enabling
their
in
social
ascertained
form
set
the
select
place, comfortably
system,
position
and
and
quite
unim-
The
102
peachable
a
an
vik,
to
read
However,
world.
Rosmer
the
as
and
one
all things
to
live
must
is
world
is
and
for admission
woman
poor
"
Gambeen
has
who
books,
advanced
comes
orbit
Rebecca
orphan,
Radical
and
the
one
star,
wandering
unpropertied
allowed
Into
respectability.
presently
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
Freethinker
that
disqualify
the
Rosmer
;
somewhere
the
in
one
only
an
can
woman
which
ambitious
and
cultivated
find powerful
companions,
allies and
educated
being
both
Rebecca,
and
cultivated,
ambitious
Rosmer
herself agreeable
to the
makes
circle
but
then
foothold
in
in
room
more
playing
a
leader
figure-head.
now
Mrs
an
becomes
Rosmer,
and
and
the
has
formed
which
of
the
the
by
using
providing
all the
offer
making
and
society
measure
idea
of
herself
him
as
First, there
her
effect on
Rebecca
convinces
extinguishing
effect
thrusting
taken
difficulties arise.
two
hitherto
thought
her), accepts
she
has
her
at
has
nobody
politics
Rosmer's
"
indignant
his aspirations,
upon
in
(which
society
because
Parson
of
But
polite
where
for
readily
impulsive
and
affectionate
Mrs
Rosmer
itself highly
shown
herself
the
unintelligent
wildly fond
of
has persuaded
Rebecca,
that
success
such
with
is
husband
that
Rosuiersholm
103
in
be
can
nothing
the
herself
The
he
does
know
not
sun,
and
The
he, quite
her mind
that
too
has
the
woman
household
for
curse
a
the
help
be
even
cannot
the
can
who
to
think
about
truth
useless
obstacle,
he really
woman
the
to
is
ideal
the
of
him
that
become
The
glorious
in the
mother
is childless.
she
; and
has
she
see.
and
woman
enough
can
standing,
husband
She
career.
he
the
hysterical
and
under
herself
her
between
loves,
that
come
sees
she
soon
it, begins
of
miserable
nothing
"
this
her ; but
with
to
the
sunflower
friend and
companion.
real
feels
she
him.
"
of
to
be affected, since
must
she
:
his
unconscious
nothing
turns
like
her
wife
intensely
so
He
him
makes
enamoured
is
unallowed
quite
calculations
falls in love
it.
understands
who
provident
too,
his wife
whilst
contingency
passionately
parson,
poor
"
her
in
him
with
Second
way.
for
finds
done
Then
comes
that
she
hints
that
scandal
a
be
is to
scandal
thing
it could
be
Rosmer
must
she
terrible
and
quit
should
at
go
Mrs
avoided.
in
that
averted
if she
She
Rosmersholm.
Rosmer,
Rosmersholm
can
by
were
happen,
the
out
if
once
marriage
of the
grave
ing
regard-
the
as
and
even
seeing
most
that
of Rebecca
way,
writes
^/^^
104
letter secretly
editor
has
Rosmer's
to
local
of the
forfeited
his
bitterest
Radical
moral
any
to
blame
for
Then
to
follows
Mrs
that
to
he
ideals,
an
he
may
hear
is in
any
to
by
her.
Rebecca,
into
out
into the
herself
to
way
to
marry
going
or
about
happen
may
the
millstream
Rosmer
suspects
not
by
party
aristocratic
Radical
the
as
suicide.
the
compromise
Rosmer
except
was
at
mourning
of quiet
period
Everybody
she committed
Rosmer
by
who
intrigue
there.
runs
Rosmersholm.
why
man
pitilessly denounced.
him
to believe
not
free
throwing
and
Now
that
Rosmer
his
paper,
that
effect
sets
realize
garden
that
the
anything
she
and
that
stories
the
enemy,
reputation
has
Rosmer
which
In this letter she implores
publish
Rosmer,
Ibsenisvi.
Quintessence of
So
treated.
was
editor
treating
the
their
eyes
neighbours
shut
and
condole
the bereaved
the Radical
; and
with
clergyman
his tongue
is
because
Radicalism
editor holds
respectable,
getting
help,
to
Meanwhile
to
the
and
the
Rebecca.
long
higher
that
Rosmer
get
over
unexpected
Her
passion
days
love ; and
she urges
brood
no
he
and
of
mourning
it is
him
more
now
to
hopes,
to
the
presently.
happened
again
worn
out
she has
for Rosmer's
become
over*
his side
has
is
Rebecca's
with
man
dead.
; but
found
own
of
When
in
the
sake
action,
his
Rosinersliolm.
friends
start
become
Conservative
paper
him
himself
Radical
105
him
ask
and
by declaring
to reply
his
To
Freethinker.
and
to
an
animated
result is, not
discussion
an
attack
of his views, but just such
his home
life and
he had
on
as
private
conduct
formerly
on
those
made
of the Radical
editor.
utter
His
the
amazement,
friends
tell him
of
plainly that the compact
by his defection,
silence is broken
and that there
for the traitor to the party.
mercy
will be no
Even
Radical
the
fact
the
publish
(which
as
weight
dead
the
editor
his
that
new
but
as
had
been
had
always
simply
honoured
as
up
that
the
to
make
at
who
men
gentlemen
social
brings
proof
that
shocked
to
thinker
Free-
his
all
sufficiently well-founded
far.
Rosmer,
to
too
go
unwise
is
ally
is
attack
refuses
recruit),
letter
woman's
only
destroy
would
Radical
not
it
first
he
whom
should
descend
hideous
now
sees
that
calumny,
such
he really did love Rebecca,
is indeed
and
guilty
His first impulse
is to shake
of his wife's death.
by marrying
woman
off the spectre of the dead
to
; but
Rebecca
puts
Then,
that
as
she, knowing
he
thinks
the
work
his own
can
behind
temptation
world
only be
innocence.
the
that
it all
over,
slips
away
done
by
To
save
her
his
and
dream
from
a
man
him
guilt is hers,
him
refuses.
of
:
conscious
from
ennobling
such
of
despair,
The
lo6
Rebecca
him
"
She
gives
sacrifice.
by confessing
how
she
kill herself ; and, as
the confession
"
his wife to
is made
in
he
as
for
her
on
quietly
he
when
back
comes
She
self-sacrifice
tells
as
others
that
companionship
Kroll.
with
and is about to
another
has
his
that
vain
The
proof
forget
of
power
dream,
her
that
from
she
of his before.
of
an
true
that people
She has no
more
of
no
unanswerable
further
one.
proof
Dare
ennobling
the
he
has
her.
artful : he cannot
flattering this very
Besides,
"
her
woman
believe
cannot
subtle, too
duped
him by
without.
think
can
and
confessed.
it is his
since
changed
is too
weakness
that it is not
from
himself,
faith in
word
she
him
to the devoted
selfish adventuress
she was
herself to be.
But
she has just proved
lost his
his
turns
to ask
alone
why
him
why,
offering
no
was
does
crime,
house
without
proof
for
woman,
He
trunk,
Rosmersholm
have,
they
her
the
her
up
says
and
unscrupulous
confession.
leaves
and
she
confounded
that
point
explains
her
packs
from
vanish
it
though
account
She
the
misses
ambition,
back
ambition,
Rosmer,
passion.
Kroll,
of
helpless
puppets
what
in the hands
of this clever
moment
not
presence
realizes
all been
the
the
plot to her
the whole
word
of her
ascribes
not
Ibsenisin.
a
makes
great
his innocence
back
drove
Quintessence of
he
are
not
to
But
knows
say
now
ennobled
; for she
he has thought
she make
all doubt
Rosmersholm.
by
impossible
doing
107
for his
the wife
what
did ?
if she had
She
happen
asks
would
what
he
heart
Then,"
it.
the
the will to do
and
"
I
in you.
believe
I should
have
to
replies,
sake
"
recover
should
in my
the
inner
out
; and
the
thin
kill herself
the
over
us
of
feel
she
her
as
The
to
her
soul
says,
vain
woman
death
out
is free of this
am
under
life
it is fit I should
be
happy
from
blood-offering
has
the
of fellowship
against
that
the
the
denied
exacts
ness.
blind-
own
light
with
noiv.
first,and
the
for its
higher
the
expiate,"
its God,
in denying
even
no
justiceupon
of
view
he
is
There
do
must
a
protest
speech
view
of life the view
the end,
life
"
goes
And
too.
that
live and
really
Rebecca
"
to
good
has
words,
"
sinned
woman
man's
What
go
Rosmersholm
the
proof",
the
the
when
we
; for when
Rosmersholm
at
the
woman's
in
right
in
"
for
asking
must
the
I have
What
now
he
therefore
But
the end
power
her
that
sees
millstream
ourselves."
we
He
comes
old
speaks
to
is the
sacrifice.
judge
of
in
Rosmer
seized
into
sequel
At
situation
demand
veil of
You
answers.
she
order to restore
of himself, falls away.
opinion
by
"
nobility."
the
in
Faith
souls.
again,"
of
Faith
mission.
to attain
truth
its monstrous
with
my
human
faith
your
pass
this
in
ennoble
soul's power
have
shall
to
to
power
human
the
faith
my
she goes
man
who
The
io8
is driven
by
thither
his
destroyed
taking
Quintessence of
the
story
ends
to
as
36
page
drama
by
higher
love.
to
the
the
of the
during
Gynt,
Peer
is said
what
the
prophetic
the dancing
girl
shocks
himself
by comparing
into a remonstrance
Anitra
his wisest
He
to
a
cat.
air, that
replies, with
from
the standpoint
not
of love there is perhaps
in
episode
so
prophet
as
critics
who
Rebecca's
between
transfiguration
dramatic
of
in
opinion
not
endorse
aware,
to
convention
recognize
and
the
men,
even
as
the
only
it
No
matter.
as
they
beyond
got
definitely
that
are,
possible
of
that
of
Peer
doubt
they
stated
position,
pro-
there
But
contrary.
of
critics
among
not
this
indicate
to
seems
have
poetry,
Gynt's
tomcat
imagine.
The
number
she may
have
the point
missed
entirely
majority
would
career,
difference
much
the
his
self
him-
in this
played
lower
into the
vital part
evolution
his
with
casting
here
repeat
has
which
her
with
It is unnecessary
on
superstition
The
will.
Ibsenism.
is
if they
poetic
fail to
tion
proposi-
alternative
in
stated
it is not
so
many
only
when
it her
West, but when
by Rebecca
without
words
her character
dramatically
contradicts
conduct
"
they
when
a blemish
no
further
even
on
of the
complain
the play,
doubt
that
am
the
contradiction
as
there
be
afraid
extreme
can
perplexity
TJie Lady
into
in England
to
the
among
Ibsen's
kill,
due
was
Gynt's
prevalence
of Peer
the dramatic
critics.
FROM
the
THE
previous
love
of
SEA.
it deals
play, though
insist on
the power
not
two
entirely
view
next
does
as
LADY
109
of Rosmersholm
Press
the
plunged
THE
theme,
Sea.
the
first performance
the
which
from
do.
plays
It
rather
deals
fancy
imaginable.
the
on
up
doctor,
sea-coast,
widower,
who
his
household
her
in
but
dream
Even
marries
and
by
of
places
everybody.
is done
no
she has no
responsibility,
In other words,
and no trouble.
she is an
helpless, utterly dependent
article of luxury.
turns
man
a
thing
and
red
he
; but
at
from
the
charming
feels
sea
life.
She
reads
comes
to
choose
whether
the
thought
thoughtlessly
fragile-looking
as
the
her
in
natural
the
indefinite
into
conclusion
that
be
man
land
idle,
A
pretty
tion
posi-
The
lady
in
want
all other
care,
such
same
picture.
want
he would
being
accepts
woman
an
of
her
by
stepdaughter
do
to
nothing
with
made
much
housekeeping
the
respectable
her
idolizes
be
and
brought
woman,
young
her
lives, and
once
animal
had
or
to
a
The
no
creature
land,
the
of
he
Quintessence of
has
that
of
child
dies
mother
to
cares
fear
that
appears
that
and
they
leaves
give her
her
into
and
who
seems
sea
she
must
the
doctor
for her
that
the
allow
away
sea
he
the
with
rite which
by
throwing
to fly from
can
only
so
is with
the
he will only
seaman
goes
to
unanswerable.
other
keep
"
that
ruin herself.
The
seaman
he
he cannot
thing.
her by locking
under
must
Her
She
her
it will be to him
In
man.
her
that
mad
prevent
that
Naturally
declares
"
husband
seaman.
her
seaman
had
who
tells her
let her do
sake
replies that
heart
man,
to
the ground
on
through
the
She
expostulates
own
have
before
for her.
go
up, and
last
At
his wife
as
begins
has
the
her
When
sea.
like Rosmer,
mad.
This
interprets
she
the work
without
valid place in the world,
longing,
longer
no
and
marrying
it.
the
chosen
her
who,
years
of their
in the
her
her
claims
went
their rings
for the
is going
she
consisted
to
longing
to
yields wholly
for her husband,
she
her is, as
gnaws
and
having
ever
since a
with him
The
he has forsaken.
about
dissatisfaction
only
that
; and
carried
sorrow
secret
sea
Ibsenism.
key
whilst her
he urges
vain
restraint
not,
argument
openly
dare
until
not,
remains
declares
that
TJie Lady
come
she
will
asks him
her home.
the
To
is
no
she
comes
it by
demanding
husband
Her
seaman
unanswerable
"
must
of her
fulfilment
her
of
him
renounce
his
coming
She
again.
freedom
on
free
own
in her
argument
off
from
replies that,
to
cry
vows
husband
force her
can
her
bargain
Church-made
he
satisfaction
1 1 1
distracted
the
the
all
echoes
this
Sea.
the
the
suppose
unless
contrary,
will there
at
he
does
that
so
from
to
choose.
law-made
and
; and
the
to
the
The
moment
the
vanish
all her
she
whom
doctor's
affection
the
In
effect.
and
takes
short,
stepdaughter
concerning
any
without
that
an
the
old
for ;
seaman,
keys
further
from
her
speculations
for
sorrow
secret
free
its natural
to
housekeeping
the
over
cares
produces
No
she
fancies
simply
longer
no
says
she
herself
childish
becomes
seaman
acquaintance
and
feels
as
off
crying
she
woman,
responsible
by
her
on
responsibility
demands.
and
sea
the
doned
aban-
sea.
It should
be
from
the Sea,
person
ones.
to
The
characters
drawn
that
appears
English
same
here
noted
much
readers
thing
by
EUida,
Ibsen,
to
of
notably
Lady
fantastic
more
than
is true
the
Norwegian
many
Peer
other
Gynt,
The
112
if born
who,
have
a
been
poet
drinks
his
tradition
the
about
discussing
himself
of
over
fiction
that
The
Lady
than
from
leading
Sea
Doll's House
are
Gabler,
Hedda
of
at
Ibsen's
all.
She
century
the
ideals
plays
is
figure,
which
realities which
the
be
frightful,
nor
pure
reason
and
in
plays
the
which
of action.
GABLER.
after whom
has
far)is named,
sceptic,
falling
do
anything
RosmersJiolm
the heroine
(so
Ulric
no
Gynts,
women
and
PTEDDA
life
their
be received
will always
by
English
audiences
and
men
and
Although
it is for this
fear that
carrying
hero,
have
we
Peer
; and
to
the
figures
is
he
and
dawdle
yet
more,
sot,
must
EUidas,
incredulously
more
he
who
increasing,
disposed
am
destroyed,
England
at
much
in
Rosmers,
Brendels,
the
disreputable
persons
is probably
and
dreams,
dream
that
does
but
things,
is
imagines
Ibsen,
Englishman
no
as
well
extreme
that assumption.
on
number
by
himself
make
will
broken-down,
away
as
effective
becomes
The
wonderful
dreams
to
as
speculator.
depicted
not
certainly
would
metaphysician
as
doing
He
nothing.
the
and
himself
until
and
Norwegian,
of
and
England,
in
blackguard
type
Ibsenisin.
Quintessence of
into
not
typical
the
impose
not
she has
yet
the
no
ideals
nineteenth
abyss
on
last
her
discovered.
between
and
the
The
Gabler.
Hedda
is
result
no
she
from
a
no
beauty
courage,
great
and
against
reaction
heart,
no
great
with
remains
protest
father,
has
she
conviction
energy
in
that
i 1
her
own
is
general,
Hedda's
cowardice.
has
She
widower.
the
her ; and
caste
about
of the military
hunt
her activities to the customary
narrow
socially
and
eligible husband.
pecuniarily
traditions
these
for
She
of
the
makes
genius
from
society
there
to
usual
the
his
taking
is nothing
going
by
prohibited
who,
bad
restrain
in
search
him
of
Hedda
consequences.
an
pleasures
to
of
acquaintance
man
young
ideal-ridden
except
from
where
is
excess,
is forbidden
to
the
of life which
side
about
instincts, absolutely
in which
her, and
powerful
by
ignored
the society
and
condemned
with
intercourse
which
An
satisfaction.
general
and
Hedda
have
in
he
describes
to
which
adventures.
she
questions
are
never
has
no
conviction
her
Although
dares
indirect
his interpretations
long
to
; and
on
rests
whatever
H
the
Whilst
afternoon,
conversations
all his
she
trust
tween
be-
up
springs
in
paper
Lovborg
the rake.
girl and
the
reads
to
intimacy
odd
inquisitive
the
the
is permitted
able
disreput-
is
the
him
tioner,
ques-
all the
for
responsibility
Hedda
him
alone.
the
that
these
conver-
^/^^
114
fight
face,
that
far
as
he proceeds
no
again
her
to
truth
as
she
the
on
society
with
homage
; but
disgraceful
are
sations
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
can
to make
falsehood,
than
see,
point
to
pays
risk a
will not
hypocrisy,
the
she
to
it would
his instinct and
her
gratify
has
her, Hedda
that
be
to
When
ostracism.
advances
conviction
is easier
for
wrong
own
so
that
is confronted
bravado,
Lovborg
threatening
father's
driving
pistols, and
him
of her
one
with
of the
out
house
mostly
libels
persons
concerning
whom
terrible than
more
to
by
wit, boredom.
revolutionists,
This
is
the
of respectability
against
the
forces
for
gluttony,
vicious
killing
hunting,
distractions
as
to
time
eke
by
shooting,
for
which
ostracism
makes
which
dust in
the
the
balance
of
out
rebellion, and
its harmless
sources
re-
licensing
gambling,
coursing,
and
even
among
unknown
interest
unflagging
society
utmost
scourge,
curse
security
which
the
other
has
idealism
G abler.
Hedda
for people
available
keep
to
money
by
but
admiration,
last she
At
marriage.
no
much
two
general
has
she
to
livelihood
who
by
instead
expenditure
to
his
she
class,
his family
circle
inevitable
him
for her
provision
Her
up,
immediately
to
her
of accommodating
income.
of
though
his income
accommodating
to
inferior
an
of
someone
; and
this prudent
wreck
much
mediocrity
\\\vix
faute de niieux, and
marries
proceeds
find
to
old aunts
and the
has helped
to bring
affectionate
servant
as
offers
substantial
good-natured
had
professor is all that is to be
him
as
a
member
of
regards
to loathing
almost
and despises
of
her
leave
her.
support
enough
is
boredom
of pistols, her
dancing,
at which
she gains
case
mitigated
only
only
; and
with
to
poor
are
than
more
appearances
is too
the
than
more
have
who
up
father
Hedda's
however,
licenses,
These
disguise.
no
115
nature
so
her
expenditur
rebels
the
transaction
that the
sordid
whole
to her husband
drives
a child
prospect
of bearing
frantic, since it will not
her almost
only expose
her to the intimate
in the
solicitude of his aunts
against
course
of
derangement
see
she can
humiliating,
but
in earnest.
To
circumstances,
with
nothing
of
visitor who
her
will make
she
forms
belongs
health
is not
that
amuse
her
herself
one
in
in which
repulsive 'and
of his family
these
an
underhand
to her old set,
galling
alliance
an
elderly
The
Ii6
gallant
quite
who
for her
cares
She
back
in
he
case
the
on
her
; but
by
out
with
against
the
this
way
history
as
left
being
life
precaution
tedium.
to
tutor
on
in
job
an
functionary,
This
time
university
taking
to
due
In
the
at
by
disgrace
to
drink.
of civilization
place
out-of-the-way
of Sheriff Elvsted.
over
married
as
gallant
lecturing
from
descends
Hedda's
through
"
He,
it without
is drifting
Lovborg
reserve
pecuniary
under
do
so
band's
hus-
hold
some
get
can
desperate
most
nearest
the
And
only
Meanwhile
he
her
importunate.
husband
as
pocket.
of
begins,
he
far
as
obligations,
the
her
placing
to
tries
there
pistols in
her
menage
behind
pleases
seriously
hand,
his coming
to
keeps
she
becomes
other
he
as
little she
proposes
and
consents
her
to
talking
and
how
understands
husband,
her.
to
trois
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
being
on
of children, marries
with a number
him
finding
that she will cost
their governess,
his
do
for him
be bound
less and
to
more
as
a
widower
As
wife.
of
He
books.
him
he
not
dare
but
he
She
does
for drinking
sees
that
is
to
in
not
; but
life.
heaven
he
her.
about
his
about
to
gives
When
to
his
tell her
dare
dream
to
poor
is
society
tells her
it shocks
too
settlement
his
comes,
does
she
such
refusing
Lovborg
her,
for
Just
as
as
Mr
pations
dissi-
unwritten
remonstrate
it up
her.
with
soon
as
Fearing,
Hedda
in Bunyan's
Gable}'.
in
was
story,
at
point
which
he
But
thinker.
one
publishes
for the moment,
now
cannot
tutoring
stay
to town
off he goes
children ; so
full of the money
his pockets
the published
plight, knowing
Elvsted
higher
plane,
Hedda
encountered.
herself
It
has
choice.
any
that
she must
himself
a
"a
as
will count
against
and
never
the
occurs
She
; and
a
either
Elvsted
dreadful
go
without
governess,
her
old
Lovborg
alternative
must
which
housekeeper.
she
without
book
her
in
more
same
She
or
under
marriage
that
the
with
him
and
once
with
into dissipation,
that
and
relapse
living,
life will not
be worth
her
her
is now
on
own
confronted,
probably
him
without
will
Mrs
Left
him.
brought
lonely
of
Mrs
which
book
Elvsted's
has
and
celebrated
another, fair-copied in her handwriting,
he looks for a solid position
as
an
nal
origi-
completes
to
unfortunate
to
him
makes
which
bravest
the
way
and
reformed,
quite
1 1
which
sin against
institution
his
purchased
to
knows
her
that
thing";
accordingly
that
even
her
but
of
action
she
sees
finds
Elvsted
his children
without
wife and
disappears
from the
so
unpitied
story.
Now
Tesman,
academic
it happens
is
an
that
old
honours)
Hedda's
friend
of
and
Lovborg,
husband,
Jorgen
competitor
and
also
(for
that
The
ii8
Hedda
Qidntcssencc of Ibsenism.
a
was
Thea,
business
no
to
town
Elvsted,
or
as
is
Mrs
of
schoolfellow
preconcerted
keep
to
Lovborg
elopement
away
hint at to himself
not
she dare
which
Accordingly,
the first thing she does is to call on
have
the Tcsmans,
just returned from their
who
a
design
honeymoon,
house
their
They
so
brought
the
tragedy
begins
his
his
he
coquet,
her
her
impressing
that
is
she
and
that the
admits
cowardice
any
other
standard
the
was
of
is, she
the
in
right
for doing
that
thing
; and
it, and
"
past
She
the
with
that
she
so
pistol
void
of
conformity
she
daring
what
"
coward.
than
criticism
is still
conduct
thinks
romantic
not
she
male
"
heroics
not
on
he
as
; and
penetrating
ideals,
consisted
careful
has
Thea
/^j-^?/r and
was
; but
and
with
they
the
with
conventional
cowardice
That
have
pairs
roof,
tries to get
virtuous
pure
same
Hedda
of
arrant
always
were
to
an
for
"
experience
immediately
with
company.
demands
now
way,
to
itself out.
judgment
gifted
Lovborg
good
the
work
Lovborg's
enlightened
terms
to
in
result
under
attitude
analysis.
is, in
the
together
Hedda's
him
keep
with
invite
to
them
to
as
consent,
are
by
beg
to
to
thinks
her
be
wicked.
did
actually
self
hershe despises
feels that he also rightly
since
G abler.
Hedda
her
despises
feeling
for doing
that
is wanted
what
This
wrong.
but
wrong
as
Hedda
to
seduce
her
Thea
In
to
by
no
of
the
of
for
lives
lives than
she
has
shareholder
She
gratifies her
railway
at
but
manuscript,
behaving
police through
house
of a disreputable
the
accuses
it, not
of stealing
been
for
Hedda
.
is the
safe
keeping.
speaks
of it
his
despair
turns
to
the
two
woman
"
women
to
the
hands
in
he
it has
handed
to
Hedda
to
this
handwriting
woman's
union
Thea
with
child."
romantic
and
loses
only
that
and
their
influence
whom
knowing
Now
as
taunting
outrageously
Tesman
in another
of paper
fruit of Lovborg's
himself
coming
by
up
picked
bundle
she has no
Tesman's
or
valueless,
of Lovborg's
he not
which
finally gets into
carouse
Like
rest.
are
recreant.
is restrained
the
of
of
the
played
any
in allowing
that
and
has
he
of the value
joininga
the
he
hero,
shunter's.
jealousyof Thea by deliberately
into breaking
her
loose from
Lovborg
his
him
whose
value
intense
of
setting-up
this misconception,
on
sense
Thea's
by
was
consideration
or
common
"
he
all people
more
of idealism
reaction
very
do
to
courage
an
reform
acting
passionate
-doing
hero
gets
is the
unlooked-for
this monstrous
"
it, she
119
So
account
making
he
when
by
tragic
The
I20
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
telling Thea
scene,
into
torn
fiord ; and
he
that
"
brought
she
is gone,
the
child
and
lost it there,
posing,
and
thirsting
nobility
from
him
him
to
'*
his last
sight
on
But
earth.
the
he
of his audience,
he still supposes
where
lost, and there renews
before,
the
with
the
the
burns
weapon
the
faith
human
sort,
to
means
his
back
the
to
is out
the
in the
fall
into
Hedda
comes
was
of the
the
of
house
manuscript
shot
Then
and
is looking
he
threaten
gets
begging
she
who
wrangle
to
makes
spoiling
moment
that
the
in
which
man
Meanwhile
police.
"
he
by
unblushingly,
goes
pistol
that
result
leaving
of
the
using
air of
of
his
deceived
without
it
Hedda
house
pistols, only
by
takes
the
with
to
the
upon
out
some
of
of her
one
He
her
deed
kill himself
is to
appearance.
leaves
gain
it beautifully",
do
he
that
heroic
of
present
she,
manuscript,
telling
"
to
the
cast
pieces,
ill-fame
has
thousand
then, when
has
he
that
night
woman,
abdomen,
hands
the
deliberately
her
elderly
to
tell her the true
story of the heroic
gallant
her
do
to
Lovborg
deed
so
promised
which
her understand
beautifully, and to make
that he
has
by
his
himself
now
got her into his power
ability
be
the
to
child."
identify
slave
of
the
scandal
of
inquest
with
the
this
She
pistol.
man,
or
else
her
connection
of
squalid
debauch
has
to
either
to
face
the
name
at
the
ending
in
Hcdda
death.
Ten
news
with
the
old
the
congenial
notes
Thea
Tesman,
admirer,
answer
who
for Mrs
husband
the
pieces
has
again
and
so
trembler
the
leaving
and
her
second
the
holding
situation,
she
which
has
Over
preserved.
arranging
and
of collecting
is perfectly happy,
ideas Tesman
first
his beautiful
for the
Hedda
forgets
time.
is not
task
man's
another
and
too,
"
Tesman
with
I2i
by Lovborg's
crushed
the
minutes
after she has received
loss, she sits down
cry of heartfelt
"
from
to
the child
reconstruct
Thea,
murder.
Gable}'.
smoothly
Tesman
is occupied
book
of the
reckoned
pistol.
She
the story
is still mistress
dead
Lovborg,
Hedda
to
remarks
not
being
with
Thea
together.
of
the
gaining
her
that
elderly
he
will
bored
in
whilst
putting
However,
he
Gabler's
General
without
shoots herself then and there ;
ends.
V.
IN
following
this
Ibsen
by
Ibsen
those
the
so
plays
that
plainest
Relling,
terms
the
by
have
by
rest.
of
conned
wondered
a
of
the
great
many
of
poetry
of
of them
explanation
Ibsen
the
ideals
that
the mouths
No
great
through
that
to
utterances
for any
written
have
who
already
given
the
and
plays
thesis
fascinated
most
will plead
than
rather
his
readers
know
are
who
that
the
is slavery
to-day
pervert
Indeed
poet.
of
PLAYS.
idealist spectacles
through
I could
that
sketch
of
be
it may
THE
illustrate
to
real slavery
virtue,
OF
MORAL
THE
himself
of Mrs
writer
in
the
Alving,
his
uses
is a tale
his meaning.
There
skill to conceal
Scotch
famous
by
a
which
would
story-teller
hit on
it
if he had
Ibsen
have
exactly
suited
first.
Jeanie Deans
saciificing her sister's life
on
the
more
and
Scott
to
her
than
the
scaffold
horrible
the
dens
makes
solution
of
ex
the
moral
of
duty
is far
sacrifice in RosmersJioIm
macJmta
the end
ideal
own
expedient
of his story
problem
by
agreeable
raised, but
which
is no
only
The
evasion
puerile
that
it
sake
of
to
was
shew
that
to
as
mischievous,
their
envy
from
the
has
Ibsen
Ghosts
is
monogamic
was
told
the
"'^The
often
of
or
Scott's
scene,
death
by
came
founded
in which
jailor,
The
was
the
found
roar
I wad
way,
ha'
was
in the
"gag"
acting
of
edition
the
hole
from
actor's,
play.
the
her
been
the
an
me,"
said
iron
pit and
The
and
painful
sister to
fiction,
innocent
through
Some
performance
After
If it had
has
problem
perfectly
of the
those
in the theatre.
in sentiment.
Ibsenite
moral
condemns
burst
which
of
The
stand.
that
story.
prison.
a
text
the
it is less
"
sworn
be
should
is not
of the
Duck
by
Deans
to
Wild
is tolerated
this
on
swear
of applause
thoroughly
is to
I witnessed
ago
Jeanie
refusing to
in the
scene
"
burn
story
years
indissoluble
must
by acclamation
seventeen
that
maintain
truth
solution
delivered
than
that
Ghosts
from
less plain
that
contention
confute
But
of
The
they
sake,
melodrama
trial
the
own
common-sense
been
sixteen
or
their
itself.
to
favour
in
inculcate
to
shrink
no
by
to
easy
as
things
as
book
the
attempts
polemic
that
reason
who
one
if their
plays
be
it would
marriage,
written
for its
ideals
moral
of
do
to
murderous
his meaning
made
If any
Scott's.
as
were
lothian
Mid-
of
led
are
people
pages
Heart
The
wrote
and
ambition,
if I
Consequently,
unnatural,
religious
and
me
believed
undoubtedly
for the
hang
Effie should
Jeanie'sideals.*
Scott
123
He
that
that
Plays.
the
of
it.
of
right
pretend
by
Moral
pot."
gallery
speech,
is not
to
by
be
The
24
terrible, but
familiar to all
Scott's views
are
ladies and
gentlemen,
whereas
that
well-brought-up
for the
Ibsen's are
moment
He
almost
unthinkable.
the idealist finds
that
being
to
unable
should
have
unable
to
interpolate
this
on
figures
of
equally
drive
who
in its most
less happily
woman
ever
in
an
the
those
of
vulgar
Brand
of
form.
cruel
lives
is not
after ; but that
but
Rosmer,
Brand
or
than
he
is less.
The
idealist
the
Philistine
is
as
The
:
or
more
because
because
dangerous
more
just
to
atrocities
such
likes and
and
love
they
no
is greater
tragic
most
whom
or
novel
ordinary
commits
he
not
His
acter
char-
of vanity,
are
and
it is
Since
destinies
he
than
to
countenance
types
failure
wanton
Philistine
the
higher
heroes.
be
and
proceeds
in
is reached
marries
animal
yet
confusion.
the
of
would
melodrama
he
genius
explicit
to
seems
making
weaknesses
ordinary
such
and
of
his
to
conforms
which
deep
Ibsen's
sympathy
folly, and
selfishness,
who
villains, but men
death
poet
dilemma
it, and
on
nobility.
idealist
Rosmer,
in the
Ibsen's
of
spite
meaning
that idealism
point
great
meaning,
insistence
of
method
the
so
that
conceive
in
ideal
his
is
be
to
as
circumstantial
with
strange
conceive
altogether
own
so
himself
ignoble
an
ignoble.
than
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
maa
is
The
dangerous
more
Brand
tells him
the
made
that
he
; that she
sees
him
God
his
that
action
that
criticism
instead
false
suggested
had
risen above
if
had
to
wholly
the
to
terms
I have
plays,
by
describing
already,
and
these
I should
strongly
make
the matter
our
been
which,
perhaps
does
have
should
understood.
have
realist morality
living
language
; and
in this very
terms
life they
of the
realism,
the
than
done
in
myself
can
of the
appeared
above,
its mists.
through
judgments
stincti
in-
; and
eyes
the
of
he
the
above
beneath,
from
idealism
reached
rather
exacted,
far
errors
Brand's
dies,"
her
once
it from
can
only be
which
If, in my
account
envying
and
when
he has
over
at
at
of surveying
play
For
hands
sneers
to
married
Jehovah
him
raises
understand
"
sees
whoso
can
was
clasps
the
sacrifice
"
that
Though
sheep.
comfortably
reading
husband.
her
125
his wife, 1
woman,
victim
wife, having
now
Philistine,
amiable
the
than
murdered
Plays.
the
of
animal
virtually
many
an
Moral
distinction
forced
had
not
have
it conflict
to
between
insist
Ibsen
conveyed
in many
on
forced
failed
Indeed
not
yet
have
idealism
a
sense
my
of
hand,
so
otherwise,
of its applica-
The
126
tions with
the vernacular
however,
the
with
the
without
will
recent
speaker
the
for the
Stuarts
no
Boyne
the
revolutionists,
fought
who
Highlanders
and
at
mune
Com-
fact that
the
French
the
against
Irishmen
the
La
of
peasants
Paris
Federals
for the
eulogy
been equally
appropriate
for
fought
Vendee
who
have
not
underlying
At
action.
of the
by
struck
find
tyrants
to
was
the
in
qualities
celebration
qualities
moral
to
reference
these
1,
would
their
or
87
their
of
slightest
could
which
to
had
to be
characters
habit of labelling
inveterate
anniversary
of
to
personal
names
sets
which
This,
words.
the difficulty
of the
use
trifle compared
when
from our
described,
men
was
arose,
which
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
Nor
Culloden.
or
find any
other
celcbrators
adjectives
for their favourite
leaders of the Commune
than
could
the
those
which
by
had
the
all
journals
left
have
would
dark about
them
enough
all
the
as
the
the
are
counter
in middle-class
and
examples
public
men
as
lately
the
of
a
noble
much
statements,
in
the
The
mune
Comideal
in
the
once
newspapers,
that
Our
ary
obitu-
assassins.
of the
explorer
meeting.
whole
quite
applied
held
just then
stranger
incendiaries
were
notices
Of
by
African
were
they
an
that
statements
common
to
were
whose
achievements
liveliest abhorrence
liberally
been
recently
same
ambiguity.
deceased,
none
Moral
The
have
been
marked
personal
Charles
any
other notable
Yet when
the
with
usual
determination,
so
and
the obituary
string
integrity,
names
from
notices,
to
unable
Mr
late
the
or
reprinted
been
subjectof
supposed
him
be
to
an
When
of
fact
that
insult
to
God
it became
whose
obituary
he
to
was
an
admit
for
the occasion
had
Bradlaugh
notice
the
when
middle
revolutionist, the
hung
press
upon
being
he
laid
on
it would
atheist
him
to
that
apparent
have
be
Parliament.
was
conservative
qualities
but
as
one
Garibaldi
of newspaper
ago,
years
was
than
the
string of qualities which
him were
great stress
all evil ones,
the
entirely
nevertheless
sorts
many
Ten
his time.
classes
merely
details
reader
almost
verbatim
incongruity.
gross
any
in
the
might
morality
without
the
by
external
other
Newman,
Cardinal
certificates of
been
eloquence,
"
common-sense,
Bradlaugh
like Mr
more
no
appeared,
possible,
leave
to
mons.
of Com-
the
whether
subject of them
Mr
Mr
Morley,
Stead, or any
say
Gladstone,
else
been
and
all
least like
notices
qualities
late
the
in the
strong
have
expunging
these
of
27
strongly
of the House
member
it would
on,
by
than
characteristics
He was
not
Bradlaugh.
interesting
more
made
Plays.
the
of
exchanged
it is hardly
for
necessary
rosary
to
add
of good
that
ones
neither
I2S
The
the
badge
old
inquirer
Quintessenceof Ibsenism.
least
the
was
actually
he
Wat
or
Wilberforce
the
the
accounts
the
Tax
being
with
"
the
question,
to
make
he
that
ground
hero
principled
The
is
I have
in telling the
stories
beside
the
sort
conduct
describe
Hedda
preferred
Elvsted
as
an
or
seeks
Gabler
death
abandoned,
as
to
hat.
to
to
otherwise
If any
to
over
person
modern
dishonour,
be
partialities
express
are
example
other
all
high-
must
They
plays.
any
the
on
those
myself
his characters
marks.
the
discount
which
favourable
pasting
simply
bad
or
as
mark
criticism
of
impression
who
the
tempt
At-
fearless,
into
goes
the
him
you
"
question
permitted
of
until
done
for
same
crowd
liar ; and
he
upright,
the
judgment
therefore
which
much
an
penny
must
reader
in practice
and
What's
one
of these
before
collection
; and
before
answered
its
tinction
dis-
him
give
could
or
all the
worthlessness
suspend
will
for
coward,
or
Proudhon
or
stranger
a
Penn
Hampden
is recognized
thief,
crowd
answer
The
individuals
day.
every
labels
such
well
Crom-
Oliver
the late Mr
Canterbury,
of
he
man
of
Cade,
notoriety
other.
of
been
any
give
sort
Jack
or
theory
that
or
the
have
might
ever
will
to
Wellington,
or
-earthArchbishop
way
new
clue
Tyler
flat
of
the
nor
of
an
create
Ibsen
with
cares
as
by
good
to
Lucretia
and
perjured strumpet
Thea
who
T]ie Moral
deserted
to
the
man
love, honour,
contains
play
both
and
If
Ibsen
as
obey
the
critic
on
that,
one,
the
hand.
other
dramatic
it throws
because
into
the
be
gainsaid.
or
an
debauchee
fearless
or
and
to
is at
which
an
Manders,
or
model
bias, you
your
true
once
immoral
is, in the
quite
imply
mischievous
mischievous
conform
to
current
himself
not,
ideals.
almost
entirely
I
something
have
not
:
which
Since
to
it
case
an
it is
in which
does
father,
in either
conduct
or
shocking
and
plays
sense
Immorality
true.
conduct,
devoted
Ibsen's
Ilelmer
said
false, and
and
that
used,
or
Nora
society,"
have
perfectly idle.
The
statement
tendency,
Alving
one,
mother,
husband
When
"emancipated
woman
unnatural
it,
beautiful
parried.
an
of
noble-hearted
"victim
the
as
relief the
Pastor
pious
unprincipled
If,
defend
"
woman
is
play
defended,
be
the
of
divine
argue
making
lately did
critic of Piccadilly
the
recommend
by
be
Ghosts
to
on
to
cannot
again,
God
establishing
goes
means
manifestly
her
death,
evidence
Hedda's
above
conduct
happier
for her, the moral
vicious
her
until
Thea's
end
129
before
sworn
conclusive
points.
that
had
she
Plays.
the
of
necessarily
implies
does
not
Ibsen
has
shewing
that
The
130
the
spirit
his
or
is
tragic
than
of
being
to
remind
how
to
as
urge
that
to
temptation
the
them
of
demanding
be
to
tell the
as
that
human
that
demand
be
and
of old,
Let
sacrifices.
are
let
others
the
above
the
worth
one
every
from
the
against
are
certain
are
to
used
shall be
the
justifies
gods
placed
they
; and
himself
the
it
that
taking
of
justifyall means
which
insists that every
; and
end
shew
much
protests
there
to
their
of
just as
He
walking.
truth
and
desirability
desirability
the
careful
tongues,
depends
assumption
Ibsen,
faith
immorally,
to
their
the
chastity
ideals, like
prove
hold
as
to
challenged
says
act
violation
ends
supreme
Our
to
ought
that
their
ordinary
attain
the
less
no
results
temptation
to
women
instead
they
circumstances
cab
to
conformity
follow
prepared
yield
upon
ing
outgrow-
of
still valid, the main
effect of his
before the public the importance
men
preserving
on
which
always
they
therefore
producing
constantly
are
which
is to keep
plays
that
those
Ihsetiism.
is constantly
Man
will of
ideals, and
them
ideals
Qiimtessence of
means.
constantly
of them,
none
to
obligation
sacrifices
refuse
moment
to
he
they
sacrifice
loses
his
Of course
it
reality of the ideal.
will be said here by incorrigibly
slipshod
readers
being immoral,
is the highest
that this, so far from
in
the
morality
shall not
; and
waste
any
so,
in
sense,
further
it is ; but
explanation
I really
on
those
Moral
The
nor
word
ideals
no
plays
ever
will
ridden
be
cannot
There
likely
are
defended
be
can
be
to
plays
from
ideals
current
the vigilant
once
as
on
anticipates
ordinary
safe
standards
than
such
you
attended
and
taxes
charitable
do
all these
them,
as
the
hundred
can
do
the
them
smuggler
all through
a
technical
point
Have
Have
our
; and
; but
or
the
examination
conscience
the
law
; paid
in
be
who
reason,
hard
to
not
to
worse
is, Guilty
in which
or
Not
No
answer
must
in
scoundrel
life than
Substitute
one
rates
cowards
even
live
yet
Have
your
moral
And
commandments
it is still harder
catechism.
to be settled
of
kept
the
responsib
moral
individual
It may
prostitute
examination
It must
of
contributed,
know.
all and
conduct,
the
obeyed
ninety-nine
well
to
you
institutions?
things
of
the way
bar of his
regularly
Caesar
of
in
you
church
to
to
do
as,
questions
effect
by his
acceptance
sense
conversion
judgment
the
at
the
worse
and
the
of Ibsen.
deepen
are
who
individual
an
the
nothing
to
as
question
Before
Ibsen's
of
the accusation.
open-mindedness
greatly
current
immoral,
seem
short, then,
those
among
against
produced
conversion
morality
by
another
by
the
will
no
In
so.
ridden
to
as
or
not
arise ; and
his
so
do
to
who
question
thing
one
me
allow
those
among
at
mean
will neither
who
Plays.
the
of
for such
the
Guilty
whole
?
"
one
The
132
in which
is
there
no
more
immediately,
instead
by
standard
raise it by
at
can
tests
their
The
Pharisee.
Christian
the
of
principles,
to
independence
to
has
wins
bow
felt it
always
be
should
in
is
reason
know
it
that
than
she
; and
which
"
street,
though
"
brings
latest
no
whom
the
the
Nell
the
her out
step
between
forward
in
the
by
is
Gwynne
abolition
a
them,
public
to
worse
would
is
respect
she
deep-seated
one,
heiress
idol.
and
The
does
better
of
dare
person
of the
of
riously
deli-
rush
lady
a
spirit
woman
popular
virtuous
to
at years
spiritual
respectable
that
accompanied
the
any
unimpeachable
unjust
whilst
Gwynne,
to
this
"
please
regard
arrive
their liberty
use
devil
the
they
time
they
detestation,
Nell
the
point
the
of
brought
has
such
relentless
with
children
that if they have
their ideal morality
by
not
her
left in them
you
cowardice
lady
who
moral
worth,
moral
this does
respectable
the
vices, and
or
Naturally
for
short,
stringency
Pharisaism
mere
them.
strictest
up
increasing
pass
the
the
relaxing
no
which
in
than
virtues
for
for subordination
than for illegality,
than
standard
less respect
no
and
for incontinence,
than
chastity
Ibsenisni.
Quintessence of
not
woman
idealist
test
its replacement
the true
shew
would
be a most
desirable
morals,
especially
as
it
TJie Moral
Pharisee
the
as
impartially,
act
would
Bohemian
as
people
error
the
maintain
between
between
good
woman,
those
who
one,
and
excitement
to
the
way
as
who
is respectable
and
rake
cases
of
certain
have
anti-Ibsenites
establish
and
golden
as
is he
his
already
who
Mrs
rule
not
man
be otherwise.
healthier
and
to
the
own
prefer
seen
to
Elvsted
women
pirates
musketeers,
heroes
favourite
seem
for
to
dare
self
him-
his
gone
than
franker
conceive
monogamy,
Ibsen
has
he
Dumas
or
society"
Nora
the
to
of alcoholic
amours.
who
drunkard
that
more
We
of
when
and
in favour
because
highwa}'men,
romance.
and
surprised
recklessly
man
and
find
is, the
"pillars
and
teetotallism
promiscuous
and
We
on
go
and
prepossession
is kinder
boy
is
Proudie,
Nell
Catherine
and
with
it is better to be a bad
woman
prejudiceagainst
toria,
Vic-
Queen
sympathize
good
If
distinction
the
woman
be
not
need
Hedda
vice.
of
Mrs
bad
into
and
and
between
that
Russia
Gwynne
we
conclude
than
of
Nell
distinction
the
that
convention
Catherine
led
ideal
an
making
of
to reahty
counter
be
will
Pharisee.
the
of
goes
convention
matters,
Gabler's
side
of
side of the
the good
set
side
Bohemian
side of the
bad
the
above
in these
we
it would
as
long
as
bad
133
the good
set
and
the
above
ruthlessly
For
of the Plays.
to
of
both
Ibsenites
think
that
are
who
meant
wish
the
to
to
The
34
Quintessence of
"
be
the
emancipated,"
Run
away
simply,
in Ibsen's
view
of
the
same
do
two
in which
the
example
of
insists
that
upon
rule
conduct
ideal.
And
or
fulfilment
and
since
the
cannot
private
Churches
Here
those
reduce
judgment
I must
who
leave
may
Ibsenism
its quintessence
in The
what
household.
is
no
Wild
Lona
What
golden
by
rule
its effect
its conformity
to any
happiness
in
consists
the
old
Protestant
in questions
all institutions,
themselves
tragi-comic
as
is constantly
will, which
be fulfilled to-day
under
its fulfilment
secured
yesterday,
conditions
which
he claims afresh
against
to
of
by
or
household
there
not
case
of
justifyitself
must
and
until death
attempt
Bernick
is that
on
conventional
be
would
the
happiness
growing,
of
for
did
Ibsen
the
course
such
cases
Werle's
of Gregers
to do for the Ekdal
Hessel
the
know
also
under
wife to follow
Elvsted,
of Mrs
in which
the
even
those
Duck
"
must
the
know
people
be wise for
or
being
But
come
would
husband
your
Nora
rule
husband.
as
to
it would
of
they
results
as
life, that
Most
part.
golden
your
condemnation
you
But
said
from
rule, Cleave
golden
Ibsenisni.
the
of
right
as
conduct
so-called
Protestant
included.
the
think
to
is that
matter,
that
merely
I have
is
forgotten
for them,
formula
there
ing
remind-
no
formula.
that
APPENDIX.
1HAVE
the
Ibsen's
which
those
of
actor,
than
dual
the
he must
the stage
selfish on
that if he is to be self-sacrificing
be
must
himself
types
has
by
which
to
or
declaring
get
scrupulous
that the
one
part
play,
is
of the
stage
which
more
certain
a
the
and
mass
he
The
thumb.
melodrama
common
he
begins
"
He
familiar
to
into
of
of
sistencies
incon-
",
idea
that
Give
him
and
he
satirize
comic.
and
play
to
is to
back
comedy
is to
and
rule of
is, the
Helmer
if he
villainous
be
to
the
farcical
him
Give
sort.
by
to
he
de-Ibsenize
to
must
by
present
and
be
is familiar,
he
experienced
he
he
his part
reducing
with
learnt
more
is
striving
higher
conventional
if he
that
; and
unconsciously
is constantly
ground
hero
land.
Eng-
that
be
he
in
Philistines,
ordinary
assuming
to
on
called
once
at
in
places
the stage
on
aspect
in
persists
who
are
who
characters
idealist figures,
mischievous
by
their
culties
the diffi-
to
as
add
philosophy
his
His
puzzle
to
two
or
word
way
impersonate
more
the
grasping
and
ends by suddenly
it is only Joseph Surface
over
again.
Werle,
Gregers
the devotee
of Truth,
him
in the
vein
of George
The
36
Washington,
Quintessenceof
respectfully,
is only
rush
his
at
to
the conclusion
friend
old
Phenomenon
in
for
laughs
play
if there
part
are
omit
To
be
hard
is
it
on
an
plane
every
be ready
of
to
at the
sometimes
of
to
prefer
their
parts,
an
actress
to
play
by
the
expense
which
of the
of established
Hedda
Gabler,
deeply
that
at
lines
the
professional
scenes,
and
the
portrait
vanity.
If
complete
reputation
her
ridiculous
among
model's
on
shall also
wondered
tragic
they
power
they
great
the
of
that
of their most
the
retaining
whose
undoubtedly
acutely
be
to
which
hood
liveli-
and
artists
that
choose
the touches
out
at
and
afforded
opportunities
leaving
pick
than
skill and
climax
It is not
felt passages.
they
his
themselves
very
more
still
whose
Ibsen
great
serious
development
make
and
those
Now
possess
only
them.
approbation,
from
the
he will want
derision,
to
is,
make
provoke
abnormal
self- consciousness.
freely require
does
shall not
is
public
produces
to
actor,
to
That
playing
terrible
more
depends
calling
an
upon
begin
and
them.
which
when
in
milkman
Otherwise
at
actress
nothing
enough
passages
laughed
an
upon
laughs
him
Gregers
that
Frock\
relish
the
that
taking
of
truthful
and
comic.
the
is
the
Smock
only
completely
to
part
the
finds
he
when
him
instead
then,
and
laughs
audience
Ibsenisnt.
were
first impulse
asked
would
Appendix.
be
probably
to
Brinvilliers,
but
to
or
not
"
or
all the
suppress
meaner
be
that
critic
as
shop
window
of
the
lies
upon
from
The
the
Charles
and
Neither
be
must
or
possibly
Sheridan
be
saw
convinced
side when
he
pit "how
it
"
that
threw
far
that
the
Don
Milton
in
condemns
the
The
authors
',
heroes'
not
conduct
lovable
is the
most
conduct
that
could
Fielding
and
Mozart
How
how
inadequate
which
blackguards.
their
made.
there
morality
you
them
of
dilemma
lovable,
are
of
may
forces
Tom
their
defence
Jones
the
tell
making
the actor
audience
pair
will
defend
that
complete
actor
"
seeing
as
conventions
Sheridan
nor
sexual
play
fully
who
Joseph Surface
hopelessly
and
commercial
ordinary
do
not
and
something
them
were
Fielding
Ibsen
artists
by
professed
actor
either
Charles
since
that
or
made
worthless
which
Tom
by
played
morality
Blifil.
upon
the
Surface
effectively
the
accept
by
those
skilled
has
an
very
The
most
of
the
of
based
are
which
very
point
whole
exposure
to
which
the
nity
dig-
stage.
satisfactory
retouching
and
Hedda's
the
on
photography
is ridden.
be
the
of
arts.
in
as
about
a
",
callosities
detract
which
dignity
is estimated
result would
into
Forget-me-not
odiousnesses
as
Hedda
turn
only
Borgia,
137
far
far
Moliere
statue
had
Juan
into
went
in
or
his
right on
less
the bottomhis
sympathy
The
138
Lucifer
with
no
which
plays
has
actor
they
those
tedious
"
lost
made
are
the
are
Ibsenisni.
speculative
been
called
hitherto
very
and
find him
them
"
most
Ibsen's
are
puzzling
has
He
lovable
women
to
upon
curiosity
the
dramatists.
of
points
subjectsof
interest
whose
by
excited
and
all these
But
solve.
not
Quintessence of
; but
not
he
only
has
nized
recog-
on
argued
sympathy
the
which
"
"
women
Hence
effect.
from
the
that
practicable
Ibsen
vanish,
and
fashion,
but
actress;
Otherwise
case
we
what
Shakespear,
we
view
it their
with
D oil's House
though
crous
ludi-
most
played
to
make
have
would
the fascination
plays
In the rewriting,
would
of
making
be
cannot
point
the
the
with
not
at
the
adaptation
might
have
have
already
the
of the
attraction
was
adapted
instigation
endure
endured
in
Ibsen's
in
that
were
of whose
plays
by incredibly
for centuries
debased
rick's
our
own
Katharine
time.
Gibber's
and
Richard
Petruchio
III.
have
of
failed.
many
of which
be
to
fortunately
to
to
"lost"
by
ridiculous
men
conventional
rewritten.
parts
sense
the
only
terms
the
made
to
them
apply
them
awarded
justice grants
has
in this
ruined
and
poetic
He
righteous.
and
side
and
of
supplanted
versions,
Gar-
lasted
to
Appendix.
Taking
the
as
Talma's
to
actresses.
not
would
be
could
They
do
play
them
two
only
their
talent
One
of
"
"
the
version
of
life and
of
enterprise
than
are
dramatic
had
been
of the
London
her
critics, though
artistic talent
as
an
amateur
familiar
since
to
the days
her
Wright,
known
to
personality
and
political
the
her
actress
most
of
members
and
of
profession.
the first
reciter and
the
social
advanced
in
hardly
was
the advantage
experience
and
Theodore
who
English
intelligence,
and
common
other, Mrs
Alving,
Mrs
of
Ibsen.
in the
Society, had
culture
land
Eng-
In
with
Ward,
Hessel
Lona
The
English
meddled
Genevieve
Miss
varied
art
and
full maturity
the
hitherto
part
more
actors
them.
attempt
in
of exceptional
and
finished
them,
and
understand
if they
in their integrity
of
of Pillars
created
accomplished
completely
our
women
these,
years
not
to
have
eighteen
39
is little encouragement
to
parts
induced
of
artist, there
Ibsen
offer
of
estimate
apprenticeship
stage
bodies
in
It
of the International.
her record lay outside
the
precisely because
beaten
track of newspaper
criticism that she was
In
its writers
as
qualified to surprise
she did.
first venthe women
every
other instance,
who
tured
was
upon
actresses
fully tested
playing
whose
and
Ibsen
ability
whose
heroines
had
technical
not
were
before
young
been
apprenticeships
The
140
Quintessence of Ibsenisni.
far from
were
Miss
complete.
Janet
Achurch,
the
which
still remains
in the
achievement
the stage
on
enough
of her
and
difficult and
greatest, of Ibsen's
we
and
four
to
Farr,
were
products
of
on
in
the
like
their
fashion
of
in
Robins
acting
and
enterprise
Hedda
with
Miss
Achurch
profession.
movement
All
for
literate, in touch
contradistinction
out
years
by natural
and coming
from
trical
outside the thea-
the stage
in the old
quite
few
women,
of inveterately
profession,
the
it is also
as
of the modern
thought,
advanced
generation
Florence
incomparably
unaided
were,
juniors in
education
class,
most
Elizabeth
whose
stage,
Miss
predilection
Miss
acquaintance
early
the
on
schooled
conviction
of the
was
kind.
palm
Miss
Lea,
our
the higher
with
the
after spending
Marion
Gabler
it
dangerous,
comedies.
owe
though
mission
ad-
unanimous
her
farcical
Rosniersholin,
most
its routine,
secure
irrepressible
experiment
Miss
to
claim
intellectual
complete
artistic
had not been long
genre,
genius,
irresistible and
Farr, who
may
her
new
most
to
sentimental
if at all, born
the
political
the
senior
actresses,
into their
and
social
Appendix.
movement
to
7iawe
the
are
You
Ibsen's
technique
breaks
in
though
can
in
dramatist,
out
out
of
of
an
already
at
present,
Ibsenian
safer
to
and
A
the
They
to
will
gain
to
a
amateur
of
old
; for
theatre
of
general
that he
by
tion
selec-
limited
be
can
number
been
of the
up.
made
Ibsen
and
the
of tones
stock
Greek
one
has
are
designed
an
get
;
wardrobe
have
made
when
sense
plastic
certain
to
its
appropriate
figures
character
out
costume
the
some
of
so
grotesque,
more
cally
specifi-
filled, it is actually
be
to
than
novice
competent
actor.
make
this
be
may
Ibsen's
they
needed
by
contrive
of
so
are
you
The
new
shape
it is but
improvement
whom
in
retorts,
school
technique
old
because
any
it to
performances
players
to
experienced
steady
you
the artist
parts
entrust
because
the
of which,
to
English
attempts
that
it is
possible
it than
Ibsen
concerned.
in
stage
more
says
schools
are
plays
down
conventional
no
both
combination,
and
It is
amateur
practice
attitudes
of
taking
himself
mould
and
anything
making
application,
school
the
play
theory
new
which
executant,
as
as
play
To
But
unpractised
far
cannot
cannot
amateurs.
The
intellectually
in short,
"
last degree.
the
old, You
ignoramuses.
to
them
around
14
interest
plays
gain
mature
experience
expected
the
as
the
artists
not
in
young
ence
experi-
of them.
only
in
TJie
142by
plays
himself,
Ibsen
dramatists
by
Quintessence of
will have
who
Ibsen.
Playwrights
plays
full extent
to
to
intrigues
the
the
theatre
quality
those
witness
who
and
weariness
their
have
themselves
aversion,
become
suddenly
more
much
own
abuse
to
common
ridicule
and
persons
have
who
tolerance
of
the
conventional
these
than
painters.
hear
of
of
undisguised
the
of
picture
Until quite
return
troubled
the
the
them
painters
for
most
and
had
of the
of
opponents
of their
number
they
absurdities
their
Monet
unrealities
they
fare, that
way
nevertheless
studio
surprises,
assassinations
with
never
indicates
admirers
catastrophes
have
no
who
forced to raise the
fact that even
the
reformed
extensively
direct
is still
school
more
commonplaces
conscious
artificialities in it which
In just the same
before.
Naturalist
duels,
the
swoons,
find, when
and
the
for the
are
to
venturing
incidents
and
theatrical
accustomed
laughter,
and
by
work
Ibsen's plays
their
of
prescription
Others,
present.
find
impulse,
such
to
at
compounded
only
seriously
the
are
which
influenced
received
or
profession
of spiritual history
discoveries,
murders,
and
the
of
vvorlcs
largely
tears
substitute
the
formerly
of their capacity,
more
and
their
in
been
according
taking
already
but
who
for producing
Ihsenism.
it
example,
contemptuous
Whistler
their
worst
from
former
type
of
by
destroyed
wholly
lately, too, musicians
Appendix.
heard
be
to
were
143
in
Donizetti
extolling
the
decried
they vehemently
with which
faces at every
They
Wagner.
wry
make
would
in Tristan
und Isolde, and never
suspected
chord
that their old faith was
until they went
shaken
breath
same
back
to La
Favorite,
as
obsolete
Otway.
In
it that
most
training
the
of
will then
him
he
when
one
fear
need
ordinary
whose
a
will
cal
techni-
the
vantage
disad-
positive
is entrusted
an
with
William
Police
Morris
News.
All
and
capacity
culture
forms
return
wretch
upon
on
of greyhounds
blockhead
rats
the
of
:
in
who
pit, may
would
Illustrated
the
rise
lower.
in setting
evolve
rather
go
the
"
do
The
a
into
to
but
forms
in watching
or
the
with
race
the
submerge
hare
romances
higher
the
as
destroy
will
human
who
killing
and
It might
prose
supersede
forms
of art
together
rise
the
or
Ibsen
that
melodrama.
Shakespcar
hall entertainments,
music
not
in
this account
on
destroy
will gradually
be assumed
that
well
the
be
to
cease
This
as
part.
No
of
him.
actor,
on
after him
stage
change
and
Ibsen,
another
before
corresponding
to
Ibsen
the
wrote
stock-in-trade
may
have
for
will write
we
shall not
we
playwrights
involve
then,
become
of Lee
depend
tragedies
rhymed
drama
the
though
nobody
yet
the
as
that it had
found
and
leash
terrier
mere
free-and-
'^^^^
144
"
easy
and
such
the
frequenter
in
step
small
him
of
some
more
the
fact that
the
as
almost
the
the
nine
with
playgoer
rational
any
of
have
which
to
plane
more
On
o'clock.
more
and
who
comes
we
Accordingly,
depends
find this
sequence
does
not
has
The
of this class.
homogeneous
completely
plays
we
at
up
from
becoming
we
to
come
half price
theatres
highest
often
those
on
understand
the first also.
seen
of
terest
in-
can
nobody
not
dramas
the
go
last
until at
institution
exist
as
at
price
have
we
which
it ; and
of
is suffered
incidents,
of
or
venience
incon-
no
scat
plane
moral
would
in
played
in for half
higher
organic
in which
the
were
order,
back
sequence
class of play
the last act who
o'clock
of
of
drama
acts
appointed
preceded
plane
if the
them
villainous
a
such
that
one
sort
consistently
As
form
in
part
simple
very
their
of
Above
elementary
take
people
being
except
by
same
enjoyable
reverse
that
the
yet
pretension.
of
throughout.
virtuous
"turns",
is hardly
there
which
between
the incidents
than
some
by
judgment
the
in
connection
call forth
and
be
drama
sensational
any
patron
is administered
or
artistic
is the
again
halls of
doses
song
level of
the better class,
to
entertainment
separate
have
turns
raise him
music
the
will not
of
though
where,
over
chuckle
but
Ibscnisin.
Quintessence of
type
at
nine
devoted
to
of play
consisting
of
is
a
Appendix.
single
very
most
exhaustive
145
incident
complex
; and
information
not
to
as
a
spectator
enables
the impression
aimed
to
he enters
success
by
the theatre
of such
the
audience
depends
plays
of powers
insight, reasoning,
a
small
minority
possesses.
and
given
of
if
passage
The
alone.
the exercise
upon
tion,
imagina-
memory,
of
story
sympathy,
only
which
of the playgoing
prepublic at sent
To the rest the higher drama
is
disagreeably
as
is to
as
the game
perplexing
of chess
has barely enough
to
capacity
who
Consequently,
just as we
skittles.
man
understand
have
the
chess
side by
of Shakespear,
alongside
Gilbert
and
Buchanan
Sims,
music
prosper
dropping
the
take
the
and
side, we
Moliere,
that
skittle
even
Grundy,
Ohnet,
as
It
has
discard
often
to
the waxworks
this last is
brutalities
been
Sardou
said
the
progress
political parties
serpent-wise,
being
formerly,
to-day
was
the head
where
K
these
that has
movement
to
; of
of Pettit and
harm
to the
the
progressive
intellectual playgoer
as
naturally
ratpit, although
into the limbo
of discarded
Ibsen.
pering
pros-
Pinero
and
that
alongside
same
to
alley
the theatre
shall have
Goethe,
Ibsen prosand
pering
Arthur
Jones
of Henry
does
no
more
again
which
halls than the music
halls do
or
the
club
; of Sardou,
and
already
by
in any
at
the
full force
the
receive
the
even
led
and
that
tail
yet
TJie
146
never
be
appHed
to
reminder
that
this
head
drops
and
theatres
new
class
of
to
their
of
much
The
sort
serpent
playgoers,
use,
even
by
of the
elder
actors,
to
ought
play
of Hedda
Mr
old
manager,
been
moral
is
His
as
actors
and
Ibsen
forces
them
until the
to
who
to
One
spite
the
are
new
to
make
Mr
Wills
will
real
to
to
what
do
play
it. A
by
Ibsen,
real
in elevating
he
which
Clearly
these
plays
!
all eminent
hold
by the
commercial
recognize
exactly
disgusted
Tosca
exactly
is parallel
to
the
play-
make
deficient
of
the
manager
see
saw
gentlemen,
managers,
drama
patrons
case
and
La
representative
in
can
who
totally
Sardou's
ousting,
done
One
sentiment.
prefers
three
repelled
as
the
of
of effective
he
that
Irving,
Hedda
condemns
first
converted
playgoers
been
done
to have
ought
Faust, and got
of Goethe's
third
that
new
best
critics.
Gablei^.
Henry
glides
movement.
ignorance
have
the
the
old
the
declares
what
the
elder
for his
and
of
the
and
for
of
at
he
as
gradually
cost
the
will be supported
Ibsen
be
protest,
plays
that
that
the
at
angry
writing,
but
the
inevitable
only
built
with
grows
his tail
be
should
resistance
pities
of
figure
same
playgoers,
joints of
should
left behind
being
of
it is not
theatres
existing
grades
off
Therefore
along.
The
head.
the
overtaking
may
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
both
conventional
success
that in the
course
of
Appendix.
of nature
they
day.
Thorne,
Mr
do
not
had
Lea
his
at
Charrington
before
at
Miss
production
managerial
it
Rebecca
was
considerably
short,
the
for
say
really
mances
perforMr
risk.
Achurch,
for
long
who,
the
the
purpose.
was
by
sense
by
the
at
Miss
Farr,
too,
experiment,
not
ordinary
made
an
"
refusal
which
of the
to
allow
members
of their
to take part in the
In
performance.
have
to
senior division would
nothing
in
themselves
the
matter
theatrical
progressive
but
time,
in
hampered
managers
companies
Miss
and
own
Rosmershobn
experiment
played
did
of
an
who
London
their
put
he
experimental
Janet
enterprise
was
Robins
themselves
management
The
all
theatre
staked
Hoiise^
DolVs
into
ten
and
that,
given
was
to
bill ; and
Elizabeth
the
of
Theatre,
ventured
who
his evening
until Miss
so
Marion
on
into
the taste
Vaudeville
the
at
manager
of Ibsen's
play
falling behind
are
first leading
the
147
for the
fact
that
the
of
of their
movement
Mr
W.
one
H.
Vernon's
for Pillars
effort to obtain a hearing
of Society
in 1880
was
the occasion
of the first appearance
English
an
of the name
of Ibsen on
playbill.
But
of
it had
long
playhouse
should
likely
to
be
at
be
been
which
obvious
that
the aims
of the
unconditionally
supplied
either
the
artistic
at
our
want
ment
managewas
purely
not
com-
TJie
148
theatres
mercial
managers
or
provide
power
those
at
which
man
in
uses
an
Archer,
in
Reviczv^
invited
private
National
in theatrical
irresponsive
it
to
very
whole
of both
people
himself,
to
enough
somewhat
remained
think,
the
since
ment
manage-
be
handed
actors
of
reputation
the
whose
to
other
words,
"in
have
deficiencies
created
the
take
soon
later
enthusiast
should
managers
of
Grein,
Mr
difficulty.
to
an
that
plans
endow
time
must
theatre
endowed
committees
established
to
with
one
Mr
FortnigJitly
munificence
fortunately,
"
of the
over
Private
feature
was
forward
came
art,
an
way.
the
some
and
J. T. Grein,
to
which
munificence
other
abuses
and
in
article
Mr
scheme.
similar
an
Theatre
Dutchman,
young
man
young
old-fashioned
William
actor-
all the
over
for himself,
opportunities
by
governed
absolutely
reigning
actors,
older
Quintessence of Ibsenism.
any
and
however,
practicable
being
in
scheme
saw
to
that
understand
wait
for
pared
pre-
the
hand
well
ing
float-
Utopian
enterprise,
of a fashionable
with
President
as
a
the Prince
of Wales
and
capital
be to wait for ever.
of at least ^20,000, would
hired
hall in
He
a
cheap
public
accordingly
Tottenham
Court
fell far
ambitious
giving
young
dance,
Road,
short
and,
of those
professional
bold
a
made
man
start
his
though
with
resources
an
which
ventures
upon
by announcing
Appendix.
a
Gliosis
of
performance
Independent
Theatre"
Theatre
of
Libre
gratuitous
the
at
performance
throughout
Ibsen
to
distinction
an
him
handled
for the
of
And
at
not
may
have
he
the
appreciate
art
as
impossible
the
it is
hope
he
service
opponents
attack
for him
to
maintain
the
Theatre
at
Independent
of
seriousness
the
most
of
the
formidable
playgoing
and
not
was
whatever.
those
to
rendered
him
him,
as
energetically
it will
be
performances
the
frequency
efficiency
and
will
which
if it is to have
any
wide
effect on
and
recent
unless
has
support
about
theatres
it
quarter
the
on
our
of
that
his
tion
considera-
in foreign
England
in
his
clear
on
of
bringing
of
no
received
passed
drama
English
production
convinced
sake
some
extent
cussed
dis-
counted
for the
obtaining
the
and
present
theatrical
of
had
most
popular
of the
had
; but if he
any
such
plays
fulfilled ; for
who
to
translation
some
efforts
contemporary
even
continent,
the
in
with
abusively
amply
generously
services
previous
and
shared
have
must
he
Possibly
unheeded.
being
of
his
that
he
that
money
he
week
that
extent
the
of
was
result
in
both
The
him
to give
aid to enable
I'heatre ; and
the Royalty
following
the
the
being
support
professional
lines
the
The
"
inaugurate
to
on
Paris.
sufficient
received
149
pitch
be
needed
the
public.
exasperating
of
taste
One
ob-
The
150
in
stacks
Qjiintessenceof
his
way
is the
by
the
official
exercised
nuisance
public
The
his
he
and
for reading
income
be
produced
without
that
he
to
exact
have
through
going
to
the
performance
fee
that
play
that
injuriouseffect
an
their
so
him
to
granted
forbid
may
revoke
to him,
submitted
his allowing
on
no
are
powers
would
which
plays,
to
is empowered
his
these
of
impossible
seems
his power
play
each
depends
As
censorship
licenser
it
which
through
mercy
licenses
detestable
Parliamentary
conexisting
ditions.
under
has the London
licenser
theatres
rid ourselves
at
of
Ibsenism.
to
ordeal.
in
order
of
plays
on
public
is bound
in
gentleman
his best to keep
honour
to try to do
the stage
he of course
in the right path
can
set
which
in no
by
it a
than
other
making
way
about
his
individual
are
of
views,
reflection
which
the
morals,
unfortunate
"
dictated
necessarily
the political
he
This
the
does
fear
of
either
its
claims
result
country
Ibsen's
strong
London
stream
to
do
hand
and
the
;
and
ever
when-
open
mind
the
and
from
are
the
flows
whole
tragedy
have
net
rampant
which
irrigates
Shelley's
Cenci
whilst
Ghosts
forbidden,
are
and
;
him
vulgarity
stage,
that
self-mistrust
or
by
of his class.
paralyze
opportunity
indecency
and
interests
opinion
golden
the
dramatic
dare
not
the
his temperament
pecuniary
public
is that
on
the
and
by
and
in
fact
Appendix,
been
only
before
It is
the
now
so
idealist
thoughtful
the
supports
force
speak
an
abomination.
as
enjoy
for
against
which
The
censorship
as
At
can.
restating
that
with
is
which
is the
is wanted
against
the
to
our
truth
comes
to
or
is that
department
he
would
In the
be
morals,
though
Ghosts,
secuted
pro-
just
managers
they
find
no
practiofficial sanction,
cally
for indecencies
indemnity,
uncensured
from
Grein
can
public
competition
Mr
firm.
manager
present,
Shelley
obtaining
amounting
Art
of
press,
publishing
offence
an
in
of
touch
difficulty
free.
supports
for denying
or
censorship
publisher
not
theatres
halls,
member
of
absence
from
merits
the freedom
e^ttrepreneiir
theatrical
may
stage
the
course
of
The
of
not
matter
of the
What
censorship
of music
of the
for protecting
ground
as
as
sure
and
novel
of
plays
the establishment
and
abolition of the censorship
Art
in which
in the sense
we
of Free
is not the slightest
There
of Free Trade.
entire
be
of fiction.
censorship
admittedly
as
only
can
the
adopted
masters
guests.
be
too
to need
to
obvious
ought
it is plain
that every
argument
case
tenfold
type
that
form
is the
drama
by
London,
in
that
51
is,
that
private":
non-paying
understood
well
commonest
license
invited
of
audiences
"in
once
performed
the
those
of
novels
are
real
support
Puritans
original
perfectly
of the
who regard
To
them
sin.
Quintessence of Ibsenzsm.
The
152
is
the theatre
it
on
Against
an
its forms
as
by
equal
have
times
more
very
absurdity
with
from
doing
his
worst
wise
policy
for
the
the
Puritan
to
use
to
matter
effort to
of the
abolition
As
with
follows
The
a
the
without
to
we
ten
the
one,
exercised
licenser
best.
just
The
is
now
bring
to
a
make
shall be
the
vigorous
the
total
the
was
instead
or
literary
any
question
Lewes
necessarily
simply
it is
are
the
Press
the
leading
of
dramatic
or
not
but
of Ibsen
however,
main,
so
managers,
supporters
Lamb,
playgoer,
Art
and
newspaper
he
when
the
managers
his
as
upshot
actors
In
average
reporting
men.
Lessing,
time
the
critics
younger
the
that
the
in order
then
play
dis-
not
existing
of
agitation
vigour
censorship
it to be
is
and
possible
well
considerable
censorship.
it is with
the
as
do
prevents
friends
that
secure
renewed
the
that
issue, and
an
with
causes
halfheartedness
Holy
England,
reformed
of which
The
played
opponents
than
odious
in all
of
it is quite
energy,
presently
shall
has
sides
If their
Art
regard
who
prosecuted
tion
restric-
of righteousness.
history
in the
every
of religion.
two
Puritans.
the
those
the
being
now
cause
department
part
just
the
stand
between
War
to
gain
them
evil, and
unmixed
them.
critic
is not
there
was
even
member
an
accustomed
of
the
duty
with
Appendix.
dramatic
be recognized
fall
usually
that
frequenters
of
the
more
than
the
man
what
takes
the
at
place
being
however,
occasionally
accounts
in the
playhouses
just
that
the
Art
and
he
whereas
what
important
knows
ask
there
policy.
Arnold's
Ibsen
that
due
was
he,
like
in
theatrical
he
no
actors
among
importance
whatever
between
is at
he
and
of;
standards
among
he
that
in spite
his
has
of himself,
personal
and
Naturally
elsewhere.
formed
worst
managers,
he
performances
best
is a person
frequents
much
newspaper,
his
his
at
such
of
critic
and
As
newsman.
on
attack
"
dramatic
reporter,
editorial
verses
writes
circumstance
circumstances,
ordinary
of importance
of
"
editorial
as
art
be any
could
case,
police
accidental
Richelieu,
descriptive
good
mere
the
In fact, the
whiles.
to
generally
who
less, will himself
one
of his best
of theatrical
subject upon
which
Sir Edwin
place
difference,
remarkable
dreams
never
his
as
editor,
or
criticise,
of
takes
of
an
"
criticise,
to
writers
supplies
accounts
little about
cares
is still little
who
court
police
of the kind
of inveterate
he
yet
the
far beginning
so
hands
the
theatre,
supplies
colleague
is
appointments
into
now
though
present,
of his function
nature
special
to
At
literature.
153
is made
so
some
many
critical
acquaintances
every
actor
TJie
54
and
manager
become
in
involve,
at
be
the
to
or
imagined.
theatrical
the
of which
wives)
do
by
he
So
he
to
to
to
adverse
boycott
to
place
manager,
to
letter, the
be
the
admissions,
between
his post.
on
even
as
would
forces
with which
law of libel.
Of
certain
or
agent
public
give
the
extent
to
"
slating
the
attending
for his
the
expenses
the
danger
is
does
if
an
threat
by
by
artist,
to
lawyer's
own
sake
of
of
take
disposition
any
cannot
critics
law
the
for
"
the
boycott
;
shews
is called
shun
to
is
performer
among
appeal
who
critic, who
to
of
course
what
the
agreement
artists
anxiety
tempted
to
truth
comes
contend
his employers
or
object,
(or their
obligations
relied
suppressive
any
conspiracy.
be
plain
criticism
libel ; and
retort
the
all the
critic has
Every
incur
paper
individual.
any
Behind
an
proprietors
to
always
where
offence
are
for complimentary
have
to
often
choose
agreeable
and forfeiting
is not
newsman
the
to
may
himself
hesitate
if he
asking
making
that
to
advertisements
and
word,
this that
attached
editor
not
managers
be
to
and
relations
of his verdicts
value
Add
to
misfortune
which
the
point
which
in
personal
which
and
likes
private
friendships,
and
quarrels
standing,
years'
all the
partialities
may
has
in
engaged
all the
few
of
dislikes, the
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
an
one,
simply
expose
action
will
never
Appendix.
again
to the litigiously
referring
although
most
being
this
at
by
the
ignored
in
attacked
few
the
other
about
whom
on
and
artists
so
at
notices
Again,
safely
of legal
writers
it impossible
out
some
of
of
Reade,
man
occasionally
to
quantity
they
fine
themselves
performance.
may
attain
form
nor
for
He
can
threat
the paper
ignore
example,
criticize
such
indispensable
an
of the day.
hostile critic by
that
so
him.
was
adversely
can
The
a
; but
most
the
he took actions
found
against whom
him
Reade
did
to boycott
; and what
natural
our
line,
per
they
enterprises
news
for their
paid
the
manager
brave
to
Charles
imperatively
not
or
ignore
knowing
proceedings,
dangerous
very
intimidate
neither
afford
the
of
part
then
his
that
position
or
is
get
conditions
dramatist
the
cntreprenetirs and
on
they
to
side
are
critics who
at a fixed
salary,
column
depend
time
one
public
per
these
every
those
critics
much
Under
write.
to
the
their incomes
the
papers
Most
curious.
its operation
powerful
important
to
attached
and
being
abusively)
on
restricted
comparatively
late
person.
from
than
papers
however
them,
is really
disposed
55
But
that
more
overflow
of indignant
powerful
threaten
pugnacity,
artistic entreprenejirs
to do now
after a deliberate
The
56
Quintessence of
the
of
calculation
advantages
If legal proceedings
is not,
case
the
scenes,
most
are
usual,
jury
capable
speaker
least
in the
question
to
his
conducting
his
comparatively
be
himself
would
law
short, the
the very
at
though
writer
own
is against
it is true
that
any
in
ridiculous
the
couple
of
before
critic
by
were
fact that
the
employer
in the
it is most
artist
eyes
or
of
In
case.
criticism
needed
; and
and
witty
ingenious
an
not
and
straightforward
where
make
if the
defendant
points
can
fine art
case
wealthy
the
its
receives
from
Even
the
he is not
pleader, which
be, he would
be debarred
and
likely
law
of
of business.
men
of
from
the
and
behind
the
of
position.
taken,
compromised
illustration
arguing
their
of
actually
uncertainty
extravagant
lawyers
as
Ibsenisin.
performance
ingenious
acutely
and
witty
himself open
laying
to an
action,
without
indeed
every
appearance
and
goodof
with
humoured
indulgence,
such
applications
of wit
ingenuity
do criticism
in
no
good;
and
whilst
people
they
case
any
for plain
critic writing
this does
All
hopelessly
certainly
not
corrupt
does
no
a
man
force
of
can
of
to
remedy
that
the
plain
that
the
Press
and
critic
Press
is
But
it
against
odds
are
so
it completely
maintain
character
entire
of Art.
in its criticism
the
the
readers.
mean
mean
independence
that
no
offer
personal
the
heavy
out
with-
autho-
Appendix.
in most
them
of
terms
no
things
market
being
than
I say
to
the warrant
that
do
more
much
for, but
him
pay
he
strikes
interests
vested
time
(conditions which
strongest
man),
detract
which
is
risks
find
editor-proprietor
reference
to
"
the
throw
hands
economic
of
blow
submit
public
will
livelihood
every
at
to
the
powerful
of
all kinds
tire out
from
the
trustworthiness
the
critic
brave
to
by
this
more
our
of
and
these
courageous
him
society
combination
without
"
the
advantag
dis-
or
As
all
to
tend
into
more
moneymakers,
lucky
the
compromises
and
will stand
only
the
Even
position
conditions
of
his
risk
go
when
not
advantage
commercial
his incessant
warfare.
successful
scarcity
than
sympathetic
journals
our
of
who
the
work
or
experience
criticism.
in
himself
must
own
considerably
his
public
exaggerate
is prepared
must
the
and
artistic abuses
in the long
run
very
of
who
he
is inflexibl
critic who
of Art
not
serious
in
critic who
no
will have
critic
to
with
of my
unless
with
compliant
do
concerned.
beyond
the
interests
the
pecuniary
of thoroughness
Press ; for, other
journal
one
which
journaHsm
which
degrees
and
where
higher
any
on
equal,
is goodhumoured
fewer
readers
are
than
value
and
profession,
command
final
The
offer.
have
can
prospects
and
can
in any
rare
are
rity which
157
the
ing
exceed-
of
reso-
The
158
Qutiitessejzce
of
lute, capable,
disinterested
know
black
the
and
On
white
every
independent
of
whom
have
by
by
those
who
its
through
this
that
or
are
and
vocation
practically
ment
appoint-
particular
(not
critic
strong
to
the
mention
force
of character
incorruptible)there
rendered
are
criticisms
excellent
civil servants,
dramatic
as
few
though
as
or
proprietor,
courageous
journalism
of
in other
journalism,
and
veil.
week
distinguished
critic, sympathetic
appreciated
world
the whole,
written
be
hardly
can
only
incorruptible
and
and
editor,
Ibsenisnt.
remains
reports
of theatrical
of newspaper
is only called dramatic
events
criticism by
which
Among
so
the critics properly
called
courtesy.
mass
great
less). Just
or
between
that
glance
Ibsenist,
an
of the
abuse
is worthless
; and
he
Mr
Clement
to
the
admirers
Scott
writers
of
of
beyond
had
who
Ibsen
being
critic
see
may
on
page
quoted
for the credit of
our
we
of
89
his
Mr
have
the
at
sort
may
independent
and
firing
cross
Without
Thus
cloth attack it on that ground.
A. B. Walkley,
of TJie Speaker^ one
able
realist
and
the
present
inevitable
the
idealist,
is rather confusing.
them
necessarily
at
in
Ibsen
about
Philistine,
into
way
(more
divided
are
opinions
most
critics, provoking
by alluding
measure
just
been
"
muck-ferreting
the
calling
dogs
",
as
Appendix.
",
"
these
gentry
with
Walkley
his
by
Arnold,
Edwin
to
men
fight
Archer
William
being
taken
as
expressly
an
Ibsenist
they
are
anything
to
others,
more
which
because
to
they
intimidated
against
the
takes
the
are
by
in defence,
against
In
that
the
some
undoubtedl
it bluntly
in
or
conceive
outcry
the
have
Ibsen
the
accustomed
Mr
Even
point
than
substantial
the
accustomed
incompetent
poetry
least
to
as
himself
to put
"
Sir
at
doctrinaire.
illiterate and
of dramatic
sphere
fare
too
so
violent
are
Ibsen,
Moore,
guards
hand
professed
but
Ibsenism,
of
rary
lite-
echoes
Zola
of
an
the
Vantrin
attacking
against
as
almost
of
behalf
on
Ibsenism
such
George
Mr
now
are
who
field promptly
not
author
Gliosis.
of
author
the
Mr
But
other
denunciations
whose
to
applicable
more,
he
that
of which
of
the
conceiving
Ibsen
to
antipathy
as
Balzac,
of
admirer
Wed
Frederick
is Mr
On
foes.
cation
vindi-
status
his depreciation
Ibsen's
of
Ibsen's
of
less by
status
to
committed
appreciation
artist, much
there
means
no
very
ments.
attain-
publishes
of that school,
fun.
unmerciful
makes
is by
Walkley
Scott
Mr
literary
their
literateness
of the
Mr
but
good-humoured
for
contempt
perceptible
Thereupon
59
"
the
relish
theatrical
;
raised
that
or
by
Sir
The
i6o
Edwin
Arnold
Mr
the
and
by
typified
chorus
caution,
the
compliance
to
reason
been
Ibsenists
of
than
greater
their adverse
Ibsen,
as
in
than
his
of
that
warning,
on
both
at
all,
have
or
Pastor
in
disease
occur
which,
into
that
number
majority
him,
whether
say,
by
as
almost
studied
be
for
as,
has
by
the
instance,
son
of
father
been
even
of death
scene
are
they
is the
exhibitions
tragedies,
that
the
really
Lovborg
every
plays
extravagant
is
It
of
the
misled
reading
lines,
way
combatants
puzzled
child.
horrible
for
so
to
Gliosis
or
in
the
minor
not
the
Tesman's
that
the
either
have
been
Manders,
of Hedda
asserted
of
between
Oswald
the
have
to
necessary
idealists
of the
no
critics.
themselves
allowed
immoralities
to
have
else
is
body
of
whole
liberal educaa
tion
against
many
sides
attacks
plays,
or
There
of
be much
would
however
tone
the
of
is bound
is
it
Finally,
that
pioneer
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want
contemporaries
actors,
join
modesty,
from
with
income,
present,
criticism
morals,
mention
them
among
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from
if the
endowed
to
public
conviction
short,
independent
an
own
profession.
that
suppose
and
in
their
of
critics had
(not
their
"
the
of
disparagement
of
courage
section
Manders
Pastor
Pecksniff),
against
the
Ibsenism.
Quintessence of
of
and
Ibsen's
exceptionally
Appendix.
i6i
horrors.
It is not
visible physical
to say that very few of the critics have
free from
too
much
yet
far
so
got
stories
the
of
be able
to
as
their minds
drift
philosophic
how
performances
consequence
"
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those
as
often
as
if Ibsen
as
single
possible
as
now
we
through
by
"
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Man
; and
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his meaning
less assented
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growth
Wagner
the
of
when
be
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art
as
quite
and disgusted
it already looks
supremacy
converting
necessarily
it
Indeed
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terested
in-
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who
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will never
be until, by
should
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attain
much
know
recognized,
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benevolently
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is not
are
who
might
modern
up
made
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yet
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and
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misrepresent
not
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his meaning
misrepresent
No
witnessed.
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be
can
quite
of his plays
One
to it.
reference
without
this
of
the
accurately
more
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adequately
have
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the
on
narrate
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to
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fully
Society
its self-complacency
foretold
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which
following
conscious
that
can
and
of that
is the only
true
natural
necessity
which
his life a mirror of nature,
and
necessity, he makes
to outer
frees himself from his thraldom
artificial
Then
living
a
counterfeits.
will he first become
inner
man,
who
of this
or
now
that
is
in the
wheel
Nationality,
mere
Religion,
L
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or
State."
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