#342 dionysion/ Dionysion

dionysion- of or relating to Dionysus; relating to the set of creative qualities that encompasses spontaneity, irrationality the rejection of discipline; wild orgiastic

And on the other hand, one sees a complex of social and economic conditions which worked in countless irresistible ways against the rise of that dionysian spirit, that joyful acquiescence in life, that philosophy which offers to Puritanism, today as in times past, its chief and perhaps only effective antagonism.

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