By T. S. Eliot
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If we are relIgious, then we shall only be aware of ,the Mass as art, in so far as it is badly done and interferes with our devotion consequently. 48 DRAMATIC POETRY A devout person, in assisting at Mass, is not in the frame of mind of a person attending a drama, for he is participating -and that makes all the drfference. In participating we are supremely conscious of certain realities, and unconscious of others. But we are human beings, and crave representat10ns in which we are consclOUS, and crit1cal, of these other realities.
Blasphemy is a sign of Faith. Imagme Mr. Shaw blaspheming! He could not. Our Restoration drama is all Virtue. It depends upon virtue for its existence. The author of The Queen was in the Parlour does not depend upon virtue. 45 A DIALOGUE ON E: You are talking as If the drama was merely a matter of establIshed morals. Let me for a moment transfer the dIscussion to the questlon of form. I speak as one who IS satIsfied neither by Ehzabethan drama nor by Pinero or Barne. A few years ago I-and you B and you C and A -was delIghted by the Russian ballet.
ThIS day ~began, in a sense, wIth Tylor and a few German anthropologIsts; smce then we have acqUlred sociology and social psychology, we have watched the chnics of RIbot and Janet, we have read books from VIenna and heard a dtscourse of Bergson; a phIlosophy arose at Cambndge; social emancIpatIOn crawled abroad; our hIstorical knowledge has of course Increased; and we have a cunous Freudian-soclal-mystlcal-ratlonahstichigher-cntical mterpretatIOn of the ClasslC;s and what used to be called the SCriptures.