truths which make him a menace to
lower conceptions of citizenship and
narrower ideas of personal life; or he
is, as in the case of Othello and Paolo,
the victim of passions which over-
power the will and throw the whole
life out of relation to its moral and
social environment. The interest
with which the tragic character is
always invested is due not only to
the exceptional experience in which
the tragic situation always culmi-
nates, but also to the self-surrender
which precedes the penalty and the
expiation.

There is a fallacy at the bottom of
the admiration we feel when a rich
nature throws restraint of any kind
to the winds and gives itself up
wholly to some impulse or passion, --
the fallacy of supposing that by a
violent break with existing conditions

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