9.
The answer
is
to be found on p. 458
of Wolters.
I
translate as follows:
"All
political and
social
aBaire
in Germany
were in confusion, and others of George's
earlier comrades were bewildered. They
were misled into the opinion that the
moment had come for them to act: new
levels of population, they thought, were
ready to receive a new spiritual appeal
and translate it into action. And so
Lothar Treuge published his
Apotheosis
of
the
Masses
in
1920."
10.
My source
is
not Mr. Steiner but
the beet friend of G. in
his
later years,
Ernst Morwitz. Here is a quotation from
the preface to
his
George translations in
Duke University Library:
"In
1933
he [G.] was offered the presi·
dency of the Academy for Literature with
an annual
endowment.. . •
In
addition he
was
invited
to
choose any other official
position he might fancy. He refused. • .•
He commissioned Ernst Morwitz to re–
ply.· ..•"
Mr.
Steiner
aeems
therefore to be more
wrong than right.
ERic
RussELL
BENTLEY
Duct
Moul'ITAJN,
N.
C.
