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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: Schopenhaur to Roeckel with enthusiasm, preaching the
renunciation of the Will to Live as the redemption from all error
and vain pursuits: in the next letter he resumes the subject with
unabated interest, and fin~shes by mentioning that on leaving
London he went to Geneva and underwent "a most beneficial course
of hydropathy." Seven months before this he had written as
follows: "Believe me, I too was once possessed by the idea of a
country life. In order to become a radically healthy human being,
I went two years ago to a Hydropathic Establishment, prepared to
give up Art and everything f I could once more become a child of
Nature. But, my good friend, I was obliged to laugh at my own
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