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At the close of the Inferno he thus sums up the
lesson of his life’s pilgrimage: “Such then is
my life: a sign, an example to serve for the
improvement of others; a proverb, to show the
nothingness of fame and popularity; a proverb,
to show young men how they ought not to live;
a proverb—because I who thought myself a
prophet am now revealed as a braggart.”
It is strange that though the names of Ibsen
and Nietzsche have long been familiar in
England, Strindberg, whom Ibsen is reported to have
called “One greater than I,” as he pointed to
his portrait, and with whom Nietzsche
corresponded, is only just beginning to attract
attention, though for a long time past most of his
works have been accessible in German. Even
now not much more is known about him than
that he was a pessimist, a misogynist, and writer
of Zolaesque novels. To quote a Persian
proverb, “They see the mountain, but not the mine
within it.” No man admired a good wife and
mother more than he did, but he certainly hated
the Corybantic, “emancipated” women of the
present time. No man had a keener appreciation
of the gentle joys of domesticity, and the
intensity of his misogyny was in strict
proportion to the keenness of his disappointment. The
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