Our eyes strengthened and refreshed by our contemplation of the Greeks, let us look at the highest spheres of the world around us;
古希腊人使我们眼界开朗而清新，现在让我们看看周围世界的最高境界。
then we shall see how the hunger for insatiable and optimistic knowledge that in Socrates appears exemplary has turned into tragic resignation and destitute need for art--while, to be sure, the same hunger on its lower levels can express itself in hostility to art and must particularly detest Dionysian-tragic art, as was illustrated earlier with the fight of Socratism against Aeschylean tragedy.
我们目睹苏格拉底所代表的永无厌足的乐观的求知欲，突变为悲剧的听天由命和艺术的自我陶醉；但是这种求知欲在较低的阶段上当然是与艺术为敌，尤其是对酒神悲剧艺术势必深恶痛绝，苏格拉底主义与埃斯库罗斯悲剧的对抗可以为例。
Here we knock, deeply moved, at the gates of present and future: will this "turning" lead to ever-new configurations of genius and especially of the Socrates who practices music?
现在，让我们怀着激动的心情去扣现在与未来之门：这种“突变”是否将导致天才的不断新生，尤其是使学习音乐的苏格拉底能够成功吗？
Will the net of art, even if it is called religion or science, that is spread over existence be woven even more tightly and delicately, or is it destined to be torn to shreds in the restless, barbarous, chaotic whirl that now calls itself "the present"?
这笼罩万象的艺术罗网，无论名之为宗教或名之为科学，是否将越织越密，抑或命定被自命为“现代”的蛮风和狂澜撕成碎片呢？
Concerned but not disconsolate, we stand aside a little while, contemplative men to whom it has been granted to be witnesses of these tremendous struggles and transitions.
我们忧心忡忡，但并不绝望，且稍待片刻，冷眼旁观这场惊心动魄的斗争与变革吧，
Alas, it is the magic of these struggles that those who behold them must also take part and fight.
然而，这场斗争的魅力是如此之大，即使旁观者也要挺身而出的。