Is Life Worth Living? by William Hurrell Mallock
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And this will show us how the moral judgment is the chief faculty to which all that is great or intense in this art appeals 136 We shall see this, for instance, in _Macbeth_ 137 In _Hamlet_ 137 In _Antigone_ 137 In _Measure for Measure_, and in _Faust_ 138 And also in degraded art just as well as in sublime art 139 In profligate and cynical art, such as Congreve's 140 And in concupiscent art 141 Such as _Mademoiselle de Maupin_ 141 Or such works as that of Meursius, or the worst scenes in Petronius 142 The supernatural moral judgment is the chief thing everywhere 143 Take away this judgment, and art loses all its strange interest 144 And so will it be with life 145 The moral landscape will be ruined 145 |
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