New-York tribune., 1897-02-27

,or,o ord family without repining. But he Is
puzzled by the fact that his life is prolons"
would willingly die. He would pe giau ~ "e ~"
never existed His friends do not understand
tho case He demonstrates this. and the demon
stration includes a study OF the whoie s'"ee
cr,ture in his time II also requires an au'hoi'
tative answer, and the Hebrew poet was 'o''
enough to put the reply In the mouth VI "e
Deity. Job is told in effect that whiie ne ""
been all that he should be. he has not co'i''u'
ali the circumstances. The universe is ih'"'.,' ~,
man is but an insignificant part. ne ca" ~.
c,.e hut he cannot make nor even sustain SIN
10 or,o 90 Gods creatures. Job deemed the an
swer sufficient, and as he was restored - ,'o
former prosperity he could point to his own 'ase
as proof that the crude prlmltlNe pm"
vocated in his time was wrong ~ all
p,,t tho answer was not complete ai'ei ~
Man FOOLS even in the presence or pehe"o' "
,o,,iatban and all the consultations OF heaven
tho, bis egotism is partly justihabie anu '"a'
ne ought to be able find within himseii aii "
his own activities the 5ustinca'ion "a Wv o,,
as an orderly system. That Is "oe ~,
~ or ~ least an important aspect OF IT, vi
O,,.ar weakened his study OF Faust by heeu'''
cepeure of the second part or the I'll "'''' -,
I'D rovlor's translation certainly ous"'
cote all criticism of this old-fasnioheu so 80
tho limbo of forgotten things Whe" " ,,
soys that Goethe should have hhlshe NJ lii
after the manner of Mario"e' "e .,,h,ect
,". Coo.bo M reason for touching the suo'''.
Of all Marlowe's work as poe'ca'
ia roed,aeval romance can never De SUI
nassed But 1t is no answer 10 INC nv ,,.orouv
p,,os.,ors Of modern life. Goethe mas h'ei""'
que'''o"' 49,. o,cbteenth century to its success
ih'eip o,,,d not do this without creating
-. ,ooond anew Taylor has SHOWN "''o'
WV ~ .bat the second part OF the play 10
ot,or,bourht Of Goethe's old age ou' '''
''O I'll, ~ thinking which began III YUM
- .,. tho poet is mystical, so is "0
-. ,u.avs. grant that 1t is fahciui ' "
CuooL mythology throughout Ihese WV
wan nhilosophic mysticism ana "ieeN -
,,ao Goethe TO his solution OF the ihS''e''
human life .r;fa between
=. 49,, ,,oon orr ewes only on the strite ue'"e."
"a his other self, Mephistopheie'' "
ahou 600 that Goethe was less OF a s'epN oo,,o
..on Mr. Owen would have him. IN i"'',
was no sceptic. but very 90" II, 'e" thing.
49,. .o,erate a word unless 1t meant d 'n''e'
,,h,s Eaust accompanied by MS oo'i .-
o,s starts to live out the elgh'eei' ,,e,a-
ers, In gross vice, then in the emu CuooL
something better In the ui'i' beauty
,,,,.h where Faust searches lor iue"' ah.o-
while Mephistopheles goes - u n,rnose of
/ ,,,,o irredeemable ugliness, the nm =, .horo
iu'e becomes manifest. The devil Is 'he'e
'nT nroaav foiled He has come across somesnhs ns
a"eau! ,,h no cannot deny because lie
hos NO conception of it. Thenceforth .ne 'p paw
of Denial is more deeply puzzieo os He
VI 1T. comnanion's insistent energy.
'"'', ,.o,. be helps to build. he Wouiu i'o'
~ .i,b the mere show or thihsS A "
doneeS numans ,o ~sh give % it realities Sa'nTt
';,' he loses the sou! he had bargaineo iol
were not for those boils that rise whe'eee ,hs
is touched by the celestial roses @"I ,ha angels
no.,,, c,,nicism with which he "daihhs '"e one
la'', ..o cose requires" in the closing scene one
n,H a. ~" cav that he had become as unreal as ms
OWN Mvu negation. The study of Faust" and OF M'
Cm" "rans essay upon it, as we'll as the remainlns
papers in this volume viii snow We .na, hroader
,har,s defnition of scepticism was ra'her VI a.
,hor the one which is usually given, =
'n"" un IN fact to take in pretty large heios Oh
! both philosophy and literature.