Together with Beethoven, we may notice the other great "old bachelor"
Grillparzer, and his eternal fiancee Kathi Froehlich, and the critical
Hebbel, who at the time of composing "Genovefa" wrote in his diary:
"All earthly love is merely the road to the heavenly love."
Before closing this chapter, I must draw attention to a strange fact in
connection with the psychology of races. All nations endowed with fair
mental gifts and a sympathetic understanding of nature, have in the
period of their youth and anthropomorphistic and animistic thought
worshipped light, and its source, the sun, as the supreme deity, the
giver of joy and abundance. All the benevolent deities of the Arians
were celestial beings, all the malevolent divinities spirits of
darkness: Olympian gods and the demons of the netherworld--Aesir and
Giants. To the naive mind of the Indo-Germanic races it appeared a
matter of course that the sun, the conqueror of night and winter, the
fertilizing, life-giving deity, should be worshipped as the active male
principle, and represented as a god, while on the other hand the moon
was usually conceived as a female deity.
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