John’s Reviews > Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend > Status Update

“He did it in a quasi-humanistic sense, in order to magnify the lofty idea which those supposedly sinister centuries had had of the choice constitution of the human body. They had considered it nobler than all other earthly combinations of matter, and in its power of variation through the spiritual had seen the expression of its aristocracy, its high rank in the hierarchy of bodies.”