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chapter-006		chapter-006			.txt	text/plain	2321	126	73	He took the artist's view of life which Goethe was the first to state and indeed in youth had overstated with an astonishing persuasiveness: "the beautiful is more than the good," said Goethe; "for it includes the good." Oscar Wilde stopped where the religion of Goethe began; he was far more of a pagan and individualist than the great German; he lived for the beautiful and extraordinary, but not for the Good and still less for the Whole; he acknowledged no moral obligation; in commune bonis was an ideal which never said anything to him; he cared nothing for the common weal; he held himself above the mass of the people with an Englishman's extravagant insularity and aggressive pride. "The artist's view of life is the only possible one," Oscar used to say, "and should be applied to everything, most of all to religion and morality.	./cache/chapter-006.txt	./txt/chapter-006.txt