The Ethics of Wagner's: The Ring of the Nibelung (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)
Mary E. Lewis
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Forgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN
1330873041
ISBN-13
9781330873045
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Excerpt from The Ethics of Wagner's: The Ring of the Nibelung
One who casts a glance backward over the history of the world, noting its advancement through savagery, barbarism, and civilization, to its present state of what is, comparatively speaking, knowledge and culture, will readily concede that what we call the human consciousness has not always been what it seems to be at present. It has been a growth or evolution, and, like the individual, has passed through the various stages of infancy, childhood, youth, and maturity.
This volume contains the history of the evolution, or advancement of the thought of the world, as it is set forth in the Music Dramas of the Wagnerian Trilogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. This work tells a story in which fictitious personages are eventually seen to represent steps or degrees in the ethical progress of mankind. And the time will come when they will be remembered only in so far as they are the exponents of the moral conditions of an epoch, - concrete embodiments in which the past survives in the present and may live in the future.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
One who casts a glance backward over the history of the world, noting its advancement through savagery, barbarism, and civilization, to its present state of what is, comparatively speaking, knowledge and culture, will readily concede that what we call the human consciousness has not always been what it seems to be at present. It has been a growth or evolution, and, like the individual, has passed through the various stages of infancy, childhood, youth, and maturity.
This volume contains the history of the evolution, or advancement of the thought of the world, as it is set forth in the Music Dramas of the Wagnerian Trilogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. This work tells a story in which fictitious personages are eventually seen to represent steps or degrees in the ethical progress of mankind. And the time will come when they will be remembered only in so far as they are the exponents of the moral conditions of an epoch, - concrete embodiments in which the past survives in the present and may live in the future.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
