The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-08
Nineteenth Century Observation-Disclosures

Conquer renounce, but whmper. That is the
great which laugh thy
One glorious line in Goehes Faust has shot it into
literary form
The world means something to the capable"
To conquer therefore is proclaim your capacity.
To gracious acknowledgment of incapacity
in favor of the stronger or in more modern scientific
slang The right to survive
The unfit To with lips
is the nobler part. To whmper the defeat
nervees ssubterfuge.
Yet the whmper may be pardoned. may be
justified It be pardoned natural human frailty
be justified emphasizing the purely scientific
the word fttest does not always does not necessarily
imply the best only indicates the special
environment with an implication that the higher organism
will long run attain the higher environment.
Violate the intentions of nature accident
sonay violate hem and what in the ampler is the
fttest perish in the unfit environment Thus imagine
and fish under water. Here the fish, the lower
organism becomes the fttest for survival against
the higher organism
The world has pity to waste upon fish
may to the outcries of the strong man who
takes arms against of troubles, if the
eventually Overwhelms him Nevertheless, its higher
uerdons are reserved for the hero who by nice adjust
strength semortutous environment
achieves the final conquest of self and the
We may have love and pity and admiration for the
strong who failed way success
of the stronger None the It's the whom
apotheosze spectral shreks of Shelley beating
angel wings Intellectually against the void the but
noisy cyncsm the dyspeptc Carlyle
the urbane pessmism of Matthew Arnold, the
spar Of hackeray the vocal of Leopard the his
tonic sefpty of Chauteaubriand-a these in
their way because of the perfection the literary
mestones in the annals of human But the
work Of all these superior there underlying
ulous of failure. The is Of Sudermann
Maeerlinc Veraine Though almost vanishing
point of TennysOn, Ibsen and Tolsto Theirs
quentIys the triumphant of the nineteenth
fury Walter Scott Dickens Browning Balzac, Dumas
Victor Hugo and Goethe the leading names among
rconquered the nineteenth century
splendid repose the masculine sef-masery Shake
speare the Greeks qualities
to by informing them with the nineteenth century
mood
OF these the foremost in point of chronology
achievement Goethe. therefore doubly great
est His greatest work is Faust" Faust" divided
books that fragments Of the first book
published the part the eighteenth century
book made its appearance whole 1908
The entire book product of the present
fury
There is literary value in both these books
other books fhe century possess There is
deep philosophical truth. Goehes doctrine
orderly, harmonious development
ton both the material and moral universe guided by
eternal Interchangeable a-suficient unaffected by
the omentary disturbances of storm and earthquake
suffering These the concepts of his time
They concepts Of time. It is astonishing how
many the which make the nineteenth the
derful century" find their germ idea in Goethe.
economy consciously unconscousy followed the lines
laid by Goethe. Even moral philosophy theo
even ethics, have been imbued with Goetheism.