By Erich Heller
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Assertions about the nature and meaning of Being (as different from the laws governing the processes, connections and interconnections of the phenomenal world, of all that becomes, develops, evolves), as well as in the sense that it has made an incurable invalid of that faculty of the human intelligence which, grasping their relevance, is capable of responding positively to questions asked about what the world is. To such questions the modern intelligence is prone to respond with that mixture of shame, embarrassment, revulsion and arrogance which is the characteristic reaction of impotence to unfortunately unmanageable demands.
That white light should be a concoction of various colours is to Goethe 'a manifest absurdity'. It is not the colours which produce the white light, but the white light which produces the colours. 'Colours are the actions and sufferings of light', 19 he says, the result of its meeting with darkness. Thus darkness is not merely defined as the absence of light, it is a creative force in its own right. Darkness interferes with light through all the shades of opaqueness provided by various media. When Goethe, having studied for the first time, and misunderstood, Newton, looked through a prism he was taken aback by the fact that the white wall still appeared white.
Nobody familiar with Goethe's writings can possibly overlook the deeprooted antagonism of his genius to the mental habits predominant in his age; but neither must one ignore his occasional strains, embarrassments and confusions, caused by the simultaneous desire to realize to the full his citizenship the contemporary world. Very often in Goethe's works--with the exception of his lyrical poetry-there comes a point where the innate tendency of his genius and his mundane wisdom get into each other's way, producing artistic discords.