The Little Review, November 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 8)

The Little Review, November 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 8)

Hauptmann and Rolland have quarreled about the war, Hckel has repudiated his English honorary degrees, and now Thomas Hardy has placed on Nietzsche the responsibility for the destruction of the cathedral of Rheims. The tragedy of nationalism, it seems, is not content with ruining lives and art; it must also vitiate philosophy and culture. Nietzsche and his followers, Treitschke, Von Bernhardi, and others, writes Hardy. In the next sentence he speaks of off-hand assumptions. One is tempted to write, Christ and his followers, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, and others! Nietzsche has been claimed as a prophet by hereditary aristocrats, by anarchists, by socialists, by artists, and by militarists. There is even a book to prove that he who called himself the Antichrist was a supporter of the Catholic Church. One suspects, however, that the Jesuit who wrote it had a subtle sense of truth. The most fundamental truth about Nietzsche is that the torrent of his inspiration is open to everyone who can drink of it. His value, his quality, consist not in the fact that he said this or that, but that life in him was strong and beautiful. This is true of all prophets; how much more so, then, of the one who threw to the winds all stiffness of orthodoxy and insisted on a transvaluation of all values! O my soul, to thy domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and also all immemorially old strong wines of wisdom, said Zarathustra. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64758
Author: Various
Release Date: Mar 8, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Anderson, Margaret C., 1886-1973