"In the same work Schopenhauer has described to us the stupendous awe which seizes upon man when of a sudden he is at a loss to account for the cognitive forms of a phenomenon in that the principle of reason in some one of its manifestations seems to admit of an exception. Add to this awe the blissful ecstasy which rises from the innermost depths of man ay of nature at this same collapse of the principium individuationis and we shall gain an insight into the being of the Dionysian which is brought within closest ken perhaps by the analogy of drunkenness. It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught of which the hymns of all primitive men and peoples tell us or by the powerful approach of spring penetrating all nature with joy that those Dionysian emotions awake in the augmentation of which the subjective vanishes to complete self-forgetfulness. So also in the German Middle Ages singing and dancing crowds ever increasing in number were borne from place to place under this same Dionysian power."