The French Can Survive With Pride, Despite the Germans' Inexperience and Innocence

There are three things which the French can still boast of with pride as their heritage and possession. As regards Richard Wagner, however, the more French music learns to adapt itself to the actual needs of the üm modern, the more will it Wagner-ise. One can safely predict that beforehand it is already taking place sufficiently. The Germans lack a couple of centuries of the moralistic work requisite thereto, which, as we have said, France has not grudged. Those who call the Germans naive on that account give them commendation for a defect. There is yet a third claim to superiority. In the French character, there is a successful halfway synthesis of the north and south, which