I am not expecting that you can sympathize with it.

But it is absolutely necessary that you should understand its relation to language and literature.

Therefore I have to tell you that you should try to think of it as a kind of religion, a secular, social, artistic religion, not to be confounded with any national religion.

It is a kind of race feeling or race creed.

It has not originated in any sensuous idea, but in some very ancient superstitious idea.