John Galsworthy

“ In truth he had a great respect for nightmare, even in its milder forms—the respect of one who felt that it was the only thing which an ordinary sane man could not achieve in his waking moments. He so hated the ordinary sane man, with his extraordinary lack of the appreciative faculty. ”

“ He had a touch of the divine discontent even with himself; and it was only in comparison with the rest of the world that he felt he was superlative.
IT was a consolation to him that Nietzsche was dead, so that out of a full heart and empty conscience he could bang upon the abandoned drum of a man whom he scarcely hesitated to term great. And yet, what—as he often said—could be more dismally asinine than to see some of these live stucco moderns pretending to be supermen. ”

“ At last some one would have been there with a real philosophy, a truly creative mind; some one whose poems, and paintings, music, novels, plays and measures of reform would at last have home inspection! ”

“ YOU often wonder, which is not surprising, what the people are like who create the wildest extravagances in art and literature and reform. What manner of creature it is who draws his pictures upside down and tries to start a paper to destroy all existing forms of government. This sketch is a word picture of such a man as he looks like a real artist like Galsworthy ”

“ In the fourth number he would he compelled to concentrate himself on a final destruction of all those defences and spiteful counter-attacks which wounded vanity had wrung from the Pundits, those apostles of the past; this final destruction absorbed his energies during the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth numbers. In the ninth he would say positively that he was now ready to justify the constructive prophecies of his first issues. In the tenth he would explain that unless a blighted Public supported an heroic effort better, genius would be withheld from them. ”