Replying to LO27759 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>Someone once nearly tricked Goethe into visiting
>a mad house, but Goethe saw the trick in time and
>refused saying, " I have no need whatever to see
>the ones who are locked up." Even at THIS level
>Goethe would not split the world into two.
Greetings dear Andrew,
It is when we read Goethe's artful writings we discover his immense love
for freedom. Freedom was sacred to him.
Goethe was refering between these words to the mad people not locked up in
a mad house. Any person who had liitle respect for the freedom of other
humans was like a mad person to him. He was deeply under the impression
that wholeness is prerequisite to freedom.
Perhaps some fellow learner may think that Goethe did not want to visit
the mad house for a lack of compassion for these most unfortunate people.
This is not the case. His compassion for humankind shines from his works.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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