The craftsman . strongly expressed by Plato, when, in hisIdeal Republic, he compared the natural passions and im-pulses of man with the artisan-classes of the State, whowork incessantly upon raw material, which they convertinto useful articles, or else utterly and wickedly wasteand destroy* But the words of Mr* Wagner are such asquickly captivate the ear and mind of the modern man*He thus speaks of the results of the reign of need: ^^ Afterus the deluge I To raze the forests in order to get gold,to squander your patrimony in youth, destroying in a daythe fruit of long years; to warm your house
The craftsman . strongly expressed by Plato, when, in hisIdeal Republic, he compared the natural passions and im-pulses of man with the artisan-classes of the State, whowork incessantly upon raw material, which they convertinto useful articles, or else utterly and wickedly wasteand destroy* But the words of Mr* Wagner are such asquickly captivate the ear and mind of the modern man*He thus speaks of the results of the reign of need: ^^ Afterus the deluge I To raze the forests in order to get gold,to squander your patrimony in youth, destroying in a daythe fruit of long years; to warm your house by burningyour furniture, to burden the future with debts for thesake of present pleasure; to live by expedients and sowfor the morrow trouble, sickness, ruin, envy and hate—the enumeration of all the misdeeds of this fatal regimehas no end. Then, having offered this picture of chaos,he reasons in that spirit of thrift and contentment so char-acteristic of the French provincial: The more simply you live, the.
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