LET itself be regarded, as profound, clumsy, good-natured, honest, and foolish: it might even be — profound to do so! Finally, we should do honour to our name — we are not called the “TIUSCHE VOLK” (deceptive people) for nothing....

245. The “good old” time is past, it sang itself out in Mozart — how happy are WE that his ROCOCO still speaks to us, that his “good company,” his tender enthusiasm, his childish delight in the Chinese and its flourishes, his courtesy of heart, his longing for the elegant, the amorous, the tripping, the tearful, and his belief in the South, can still appeal to SOMETHING LEFT in us! Ah, some time or other it will be over with it! — but who can doubt that it will be over still sooner with the intelligence and taste for Beethoven!