And so the German spirit, carousing in music, in wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were never pressed home to reality, has left the greater part of its practical gifts to decay. None of us intellectuals is at home in reality.
Eta musikan, musikazko obra zoragarri zorionekoetan, egiaztatu behar izan ez zituen sentimen eta jarreretan galdu da izpiritu alemaniarra eta bere eginkizunik gehienak alde batera utzi ditu.