Excerpt from Brahms

The following pages are certain to inspire distrust in the minds of some readers because of their "enthusiastic" tone. Now, although enthusiasm is no longer considered a dangerous form of insanity, as it was in the eighteenth century, yet its presence is still regarded as tending to obscure the judgment, and the word conveys, whether intentionally or not, some idea of a mood that is necessarily transitory. The lamp that is trimmed gives the brightest and purest light, and the very sound of "enthusiasm" suggests some of the unpleasant accompaniments of an untrimmed wick. But is "enthusiasm" rightly predicted of all eulogy? Is all eulogy to be distrusted on the ground that no opinion can be at once favourable and dispassionate? One sees how absurd the word sounds in regard to the supreme things of the world in art and literature.

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