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The prestige of good is stupendous. We are all hypnotized by it; and the reason we are slow in realizing the ideal is, not that we are evil, but that we are stupid. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1916. "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" no one had a better right to say that than a German poet.
As a refrain to every argument there seemed to go jeering and sneering through my brain Schiller's famous line: "Against stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain." "Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens." Jungfrau von Orleans, Act III, scene 6. There seemed no possibility even of SUSPENDING the judgment of the great majority who saw the statue.
Scotch Liberals will not give up Carlyle, one of his biographers keenly asseverating that he was to the last "a democrat at heart"; while the representative organ of northern Conservatism on the same ground continues to assail him "mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens."
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