Which Wins?

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Excerpt from Which Wins?: A Story of Social ConditionsSince Wagner wrote his great opera of Parsifal, it is, perhaps, unnecessary to remind the reader of the following story, that at least one romance of the Holy Grail is a study of spiritual development. Wolfram von Eschenbach, who wrote his great epic of Parzifal in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, was the only one of the early Grail poets who seemed to feel the need of any qualities save those of strength and bravery - and later a sort of pre-natal purity - in the winner of the mystic cup. But to Wolfram, success in the strange, unearthly quest to which so many heroes of early chivalry were dedicated, depended first and foremost upon the enlightenment of soul and fearlessness of spirit, which must grow in any man who spends years in a pursuit bringing into action the highest faculties of his being. Many critics, therefore, call Wolfram's Parzifal the Faust of the Middle Ages, and it is well worthy of such a title.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.