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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: the whole body of great literature in which the inspiration and
revelation of Hebrew Scripture has been continued to the present day.
Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zoroaster is less comforting to the ill and
unhappy than the Psalms; but it is much truer, subtler, and more
edifying. The pleasure we get from the rhetoric of the book of Job
and its tragic picture of a bewildered soul cannot disguise the
ignoble irrelevance of the retort of God with which it closes, or
supply the need of such modern revelations as Shelley's Prometheus or
The Niblung's Ring of Richard Wagner. There is nothing in the Bible
greater in inspiration than Beethoven's ninth symphony; and the power
of modern music to convey that inspiration to a modern man is far
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