The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
antithesis “_noble morality_” and “_Christian morality_”; a more
decisive turning point in the history of religious and moral science
does not perhaps exist. This book, which is a touchstone by which I
can discover who are my peers, rejoices in being accessible only to
the most elevated and most severe minds: the others have not the
ears to hear me. One must have one’s passion in things, _wherein_ no
one has passion nowadays.
15 An allusion to Schiller’s poem: “Das verschleierte Bild zu
Sais.”—_Tr._
16 What Schiller said of Goethe.—_Tr._
17 See note on page 37.
18 It should be noted that the German Catholic party is called the
Ultramontane Party. The river which can thus flow over mountains is
Catholicism, towards which Nietzsche thought Wagner’s art to be
tending.—_Tr._