Siegfried fighting the Dragon. Stories from Northern Myths. New York: The Macmillan Company. Published in 1914, artist unknown.[/caption]"We know from Heraclitus that life is a struggle, and that peace exists only in death. Our religion is first and foremost a worship of heroes, warriors and athletes. Since the Greeks we still honor the difference and inequality of the people. Our world is a world of Struggle and Will: the universe is not a limit, but an Order. Nature differentiates, separates, establishes Hierarchies. Free and strong individuality becomes the center of the world. The greatest worth of the individual is his Pride - an ultimate contradiction with the foreign religion. In our tragic perception of life, the Struggle is the Ultimate Law: a continuous mountain range connects Prometheus with Siegfried. Only the one who undertakes such an earthshaking mission is an authentic man."
Jean Mabire
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