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the sight to know the cure. It is
the frenzy that follows when the
mask of man is askew. The being
must brag of its triumph over its
own incoherence.
I examine his work in this new
light and when he lay with beauty
in her corner or fed cats in the
street, they have their oppressors,
he was a true lover of order. I
would undo no single word of all
he has published, quarrel as I have
with him, take as I did at times
his work of twenty years, the Can–
tos, to be a botch of tone and
colour, all Hodos Chameliontos.
He was false-out of phase–
when he subordinated his critical
intelligence to the objects of au–
thority in others.
If
the Positive
Man do that, all the cruelty and
narrowness of his intellect are dis-
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played in service of preposterous
purpose after purpose till there is
nothing left but the fixed idea and
some hysterical hatred.
'It was natural he looked for an
elite, and from brawlers and poets.
It was his obsession to draw all
things up into the pattern of
art.
He was ignorant of science and he
will be surprised, as Goethe will
not be, to find a physicist come on
as Stage Manager of the tragedy.
It is a time, yours, when forces
large as centuries battle and I sup–
pose you must be more violent in
your judgment than a man like me
who had age tied to his tail like a
can. But this I would say to you:
you must take strength by embrac–
ing the criticism of your enemy.
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