Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] Eastman cited cases of individuals being ruined by becoming buried deeply in some one belief. He also deplored a person spending his life at war with the world because he had different ideas from the world in general. I disagree with that: that is the coward’s viewpoint. How can a person, a genius for instance, ever accomplish anything if he is continually giving in to a hostile world? Was not Wagner’s life a continual strife? Or Christ’s? That is the meaning of Nietsche’s (sic)