The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-11
HEINZ PREDICTED TRIUMPH OF
 WAR SPIRIT AMONG THE TEUTONS

Next Monday will be the 116th an niversary of the birth of Heinrich 1eine, the German poet who was one Of the most exalted representatives of that Teutonic culture of which we have heard so much since the begin ming of the present war. In the realm of pure literature leaving out of con sideration the historians, philosophers and theologians-Heine for the great CT part of his mature life stood alone as the sole representative of German culture to win recognition in other i lands The death of Goethe in 1882 let Germany without a single great literary man save Heine, who was an exile in Paris. From the death of Heine in 1856 until the rise of Haupt- mann, Sudermann and the present day school of poets and edramatists, Germany has had little to boast of in the way of literature.
 Among the works of Heine is to be found 8 remarkable prophetic vision l of the future, written more than four score years ago:
 t'Christianity-and this is it's high est merit-has in some degree soften ed, but it cannot destroy, the brutal German joy of battle. When once that tanning talisnan, the cross, breaks in two, the savagery of the old fight CTS, the sense1ess (Berserker fury-of which the Morse poets sing and say
 
 l talisman is decayed, and the day will come when it will piteously collapse. Then the old stone gods will arise from the silent ruins and will rub the dust of a thousand pears from their eyes Thor with his giants hammer l will at last spring up and shatter to 1 bits the Gothic cathedPal.''>i
 Heinrich Heine was born at Dussel- dorf, of Jewish parents. His native town has never erected a memorial in honor of the great poet, although last year a wealthy citizen of Dusseldorf bequeathed $1O,OO0 for that purpose but the war has so far prevented the fulfillment of the legacy. The failure of the people of Dusseldorf to honor 1 their 1lustrious townsman is in ] strange contrast with the spirit shown by French and American admirers o1 1.-the board, who have erected numerous 1 memorials to perpetuate his name Che of the most beautiful monuments in New York is the Lore1ei Fountain at 161st street and Mott avenue, erect ed in honor of Heine.
 1 With the exception of Goethe, Heine l ranks as the foremost name in Ger
 man literature. There is no basis o1 fiery, flaming, satirical German Jew and the serene and philosophic bard isof Weimar. Heine's genius was be- wi1dering in it's kaleidoscopic variety
 it's expressions rangings from bruta \ cynfcfsm and bitter mockery to a sen- 1 tirnental lyricism and intel1ectua
 profundity- He will merited the title l of 'tthe German Aristophanes."
 I By birth a German and 8 Jew, he
 was of all countries and of all re1ig. ions-and of none. "'I am a Jew,
 am a Christian" he declared, and
 added, t'I am an unbeliever. I am l tragedy, am clitus and Democritus in one: a Greek, 2 Hebrew; an adorerof despotism as in !carnate in Napoleon, an adnirer o1 communism as embodied in Proud I hon: a Latin. a Teuton; a beast, 2 IdeN1l, a god.'' | On another occasion he wrote:
 Gods satire weighs heavily upor
 me. The great Author of tht l Universe, the Aristop phanes of Heaven
 was bent on demonstrating with crush l ing force to me, the little earthly SO dalfed German Aristoptanes, how m!
 weightiest sarcasns are only pitifu I attempts at testing in comparison with His, and how miserab1y an
 beneath Him in hunor, in co1ossa nnOckerv'' ''