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chapter on the commercial value of his new 

 creations, but I wish to add a few more words. 

 Let me first cite a paragraph from my Wagner 

 and His Works: 



1 'Liszt's enemies ! Does it not seem astounding 

 that one should have to write down those two 

 words? Liszt, the most generous, big-hearted, 

 unselfish musician that ever lived; who helped 

 every artist in distress; who taught every stu- 

 dent without charge; who delighted tens of 

 thousands with such interpretations of the 

 masters of all schools as no one had ever heard ; 

 . . . who had a kind word for everybody; who 

 was generous even to the incompetent; who 

 wittingly offended no one, and whose tact and 

 amiability are evinced in all his sayings and 

 doings Liszt had enemies? Aye, and bitter 

 ones; enemies who, on account of his lofty 

 artistic ideals, finally succeeded in driving him 

 from Weimar; enemies in the press, enemies 

 everywhere; critical enemies, perhaps more 

 bitter and venomous than Wagner's." 



Darwin, the dear, kind man, who never 

 harmed man or beast and who spent his life 

 and wrecked his health in the pursuit of scien- 

 tific truth, had as bitter and persistent enemies 

 as Liszt and Wagner. There are professors 

 even now who speak of him, as they do of his 

 disciple Burbank, as being "discredited." When 

 my friend John Fiske came to the rescue of 

 Darwin, in the 'seventies of the last century, 



