I noticed just now, in passing, how _Measure for Measure_ and _Faust_ would suffer in their meaning and their interest, by the absence on our part of a certain moral judgment.

They would become like a person singing to a deaf audience--a series of dumb grimaces with no meaning in them.

The same thing is equally true in all the other cases.

Antigone's heroism will evaporate;[25] she will be left obstinate only.

The lives of Macbeth and Hamlet will be tales of little meaning for us, though the words are strong.