His late dramatic pieces, particularly "The Magic Flute", propounded ideals for the betterment of society, an enterprise taken up in the following century by Wagner. Some of the Magic Flute maxims were merely anodyne, like "Love is all" but others were pernicious, like "Women need the guidance of men." Wagner meant his early operas to hasten political revolution; however, his later ones rather encourage withdrawal from an incorrigible world.
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