Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from German Influence on Two Hemispheres: An Address by Jerry A. Mathews on German Day, July 15, 1906 at Germania Park Indianapolis, Indiana
I have no friend: I must live with myself, alone; but I well know that God is nearer to me than to my brothers in the art.
This was not self-esteem; it was self-appraisement. It was that divine bestowal of the appreciation of his art with which the true artist is ever endowed. It was that faith in self which keeps every hero at his task until he commands from the world his immortal due. Beethoven said to a friend: I have no fear for my works. No harm can betide them. Whoever understands them shall be delivered from the burdens that af?ict mankind.
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