悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第54期:阻礙文明的攔路石
Once again, we may see the artist's buoyancy and creative joy as a luminous cloud shape reflected upon the dark surface of a lake of sorrow.
The legend of Prometheus is indigenous to the entire community of Aryan races and attests to their prevailing talent for profound and tragic vision.
普羅密修斯的故事是全亞利安族的原始財產，是該族的深刻悲壯的方華之佐證。In fact, it is not improbable that this myth has the same characteristic importance for the Aryan mind as the myth of the Fall has for the Semitic,
真的，普羅密修斯的神話之於亞利安天才，實含有特殊的意義，正如人類墮落的神話之於閃族那樣，
and that the two myths are related as brother and sister.
這兩者之間有着兄妹的親屬關係，這點決不是沒有可能的。The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is primitive man's belief in the supreme value of fire as the true palladium of every rising civilization.
普羅密修斯神話的前提，是天真的先民對火的過高估價，以爲火是一切新興文化的真正護守神。But for man to dispose of fire freely, and not receive it as a gift from heaven in the kindling thunderbolt and the warming sunlight,
然而，若果人類要自由自主地控制火，而不是僅僅依靠皇天的賜予，例如靠雷電燃燒或者靠陽光生熱，而取得火，seemed a crime to thoughtful primitive man, a despoiling of divine nature.
那在沉思的原始人看來便是褻瀆神明，是盜取神物。Thus this original philosophical problem poses at once an insoluble conflict between men and the gods,
所以，這第一個哲學問題便立刻引起神與人之間痛苦的、不可調和的矛盾，which lies like a huge boulder at the gateway to every culture.
彷彿在一切文明的門前放置一塊攔路石。
