We shall see this, for instance, in _Macbeth_ 137 In _Hamlet_ 137 In _Antigone_ 137 In _Measure for Measure_, and in _Faust_ 138 And also in degraded art just as well as in sublime art 139 In profligate and cynical art, such as Congreve's 140 And in concupiscent art 141 Such as _Mademoiselle de Maupin_ 141 Or such works as that of Meursius, or the worst scenes in Petronius 142 The supernatural moral judgment is the chief thing everywhere 143 Take away this judgment, and art loses all its strange interest 144 And so will it be with life 145 The moral landscape will be ruined 145 Even the mere sensuous joy of living in health will grow duller 146 Nor will culture be of the least avail without the supernatural moral element 148 Nor will the devotion to truth for its own sake, which is the last refuge of the positivists when in despair 149 For this last has no meaning whatever, except as a form of concrete theism 152 The reverence for Nature is but another form of the devotion to truth, and its only possible meaning is equally theistic 157 Thus all the higher resources of positivism fail together 161 And the highest positive value of life would be something less than its present value 161 CHAPTER VII. THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM. From what we have just seen, the visionary character of the positivist conception of progress becomes evident 163 Its object is far more plainly an illusion than the Christian heaven 164 _All_ the objections urged against the latter apply with far more force to the former 165 As a matter of fact, there is no possible object sufficient to start the enthusiasm required by the positivists 167 To make the required enthusiasm possible human nature would have to be completely changed 168 Two existing qualities, for instance, would have to be magnified to an impossible extent--imagination 169 And unselfishness 170 If we state the positive system in terms of common life, its visionary character becomes evident 172