The European of the Future

The most unmistakable signs that Europe wishes to be won are now overlooked, or arbitrarily and falsely misinterpreted. The real general tendency of the more profound and large-minded men of this century was to prepare the way for a new synthesis. I think of such men as Napoleon, Gerta, Beethoven, Stendhal, Heinrich Hein, Schopenhauer. It must not be taken amiss if I also count Richard Wagner among them. Geniuses like him have seldom the right to understand themselves.