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Not only does the bond between man and man come to be forged once more by the magic of the Dionysian rite, but nature itself, long alienated or subjugated, rises again to celebrate the reconciliation with her prodigal son, man.
The earth offers its gifts voluntarily, and the savage beasts of mountain and desert approach in peace.
The chariot of Dionysus is bedecked with flowers and garlands; panthers and tigers stride beneath his yoke.
If one were to convert Beethoven's "Hymn to Joy" into a painting, and refuse to curb the imagination when that multitude prostrates itself reverently in the dust, one might form some apprehension of Dionysian ritual.
Now the slave emerges as a freeman; all the rigid, hostile walls which either necessity or despotism has erected between men are shattered.
