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" Nietzsche
is quoted to the effect that "in the period of corruption in the
evolution of societies we are apt to overlook the fact that the
energy which in more primitive times marked the operations of a
community as a whole has now simply been transferred to the
individuals themselves, and this aggrandizement of the individual
really produces an even greater amount of energy." And further,
Ellis: "All art is the rising and falling of the slopes of a
rhythmic curve between these two classic and decadent extremes.
Decadence suggests to us going down, falling, decay. If we walk
down a real hill we do not feel that we commit a more wicked act
than when we walked up it....Roman architecture is classic to
become in its Byzantine developments completely decadent, and St.
Mark's is the perfected type of decadence in art. ... We have to
recognize that decadence is an aesthetic and not a moral
conception. The power of words is great but they need not befool
us. ... We are not called upon to air our moral indignation over
the bass end of the musical clef.


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