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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: type of the healthy man raised to perfect confidence in his own
impulses by an intense and joyous vitality which is above fear,
sickliness of conscience, malice, and the makeshifts and moral
crutches of law and order which accompany them. Such a character
appears extraordinarily fascinating and exhilarating to our
guilty and conscience-ridden generations, however little they may
understand him. The world has always delighted in the man who is
delivered from conscience. From Punch and Don Juan down to Robert
Macaire, Jeremy Diddler and the pantomime clown, he has always
drawn large audiences; but hitherto he has been decorously given
to the devil at the end. Indeed eternal punishment is sometimes
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