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Let us therefore guard ourselves against the gratui-tous, but just now very common, assumption that the Queen, in her garnered wisdom and sorrow, is as silly as the noisiest of her subjects, who see in their ideal Queen the polar opposite of Mrs. Alving, and who are so far right that the spirit of ” Ghosts ” is unquestionably the polar opposite of the spirit of the Jubilee.

The Jubilee represents the nineteenth century proud of itself. ” Ghosts” represents it loathing itself. And how it can loathe itself when it gets tired of its money!

Think of Schopenhauer and Shelley, Lassalle and Karl Marx, Ruskin and Carlyle, Morris and Wagner and Ibsen. How fiercely they rent the bosom that bore them! How they detested all the orthodoxies, and re-spectabilities, and ideals we have just been bejubilat-ing! Of all their attacks, none is rasher or fiercer than ” Ghosts.” And yet, like them all, it is perfectly—- ghost, dog. Done