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I believe only in French culture, and what the rest of Europe calls culture appears to me to be a mistake.

The few individual cases of lofty culture that I met in Germany were of French origin." "You know," continued Argensola, "that in quarrelling with Wagner about the excess of Germanism in his art, Nietzsche proclaimed the necessity of mediterraneanizing music.

His ideal was a culture for all Europe, but with a Latin base." Julius von Hartrott replied most disdainfully to this, repeating the Spaniard's very words.

Men who thought much said many things.