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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: conscience. For their sakes Germany stands consecrated as the
Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters'
sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized Renascence;
France, for its builders' sakes, of the age of Christian chivalry
and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors' sakes, of the Periclean
age.
These Holy Lands are my fatherlands: in them alone am I truly at
home: all my work is but to bring the whole world under this
sanctification.
And so, O worthy, respectable, dutiful, patriotic, brave,
industrious German reader, you who used to fear only God and your
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