1903 Archives | Benjamin De Casseres

The Production of “Parsifal”

Is It, After All, a Comedy? To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Nietzsche—a Copernicus in psychology, a Dowie in constructive […]

“The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by John Kelman, Jr., might with appropriateness have been called “An Inland Voyage.” We have

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Taine’s theory of art was that an artist stood in exact and definite relations to his

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All life is absorption—a sucking up, a blending of forces. Absorption and dissipation are the laws

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES “You are spinning like bubbles in a river, you know not whither or whence, and you

The individual is God differentiated. Mankind is One reduced to fractions. Each soul is a segment of the primal circle—an

THE young Emerson asked of an eviscerated generation, “Shall we conquer our nature or obey it?” His thought matured with

The comic is Dissonance viewed from the Imperturbable. Life is a contretemps. Life is a rencounter between I Would and