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After all, 'Religion ist in der Thiere Trieb, says Wallenstein; 'the very savage drinks not with the victim, into whose breast he means to plunge a sword. Danton was warned that Robespierre was plotting his arrest.
And this concludes the poem. What is the central point from which this poem can be regarded? It does not seem to be very hard to find. Novalis has said: "Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh, ein Trieb ueberall zu Hause zu sein." He wants to know where he is, and where he ought to be and can be; for, rightly considered, the position a man ought to occupy is the only one he truly can occupy.
I was of course unable to introduce a new motive, because that would have involved a remodelling of almost the whole work; all I was able to do was to develop the sentiment a little more broadly, in the form of a kind of enlarged cadence. Gretchen of course could not be introduced, only Faust himself: "ein unbegreiflich holder Drang, trieb mich durch Wald und Wiesen hin," etc
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