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being taken gaily . This gaiety indeed, or, to use my own language, this joyful wisdom , is a payment; a payment for a protracted, brave, laborious, and burrowing seriousness, which, it goes without saying, is the attribute of but a few. But on that day on which we say from the fullness of our hearts, “Forward! our old morality too is fit material for Comedy ,” we shall have discovered a new plot, and a new possibility for the Dionysian drama entitled “The Soul’s Fate”⁠—and he will speedily utilise it, one can wager safely, he, the great ancient eternal dramatist of the comedy of our existence.