The sun., 1910-06-12
rHE NEW ENGLISH NIErzSCHE.

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Macmillans. The edition will be CON
plele in eighteen volumes and is 70 rang
from tho five lectures 'On the Future o
Our Educational InstitutiOns.' dsliverc,
by NietHsche when professor Of olasaioa
philology AZ Basle. 70 the autObiogFaphioa
-Ecoe Homo which saw the light o.
publication Tin an expensive edition. les
year. This first complete and authorissC
10y Frau Foerster-Nietzsche Of WeimAr
translation is edited by Dr.. Oscar Levy d
London. DR.. Levy Ia . citizen Of ths
world, author of Revival Of A1ssocaoy.
Az a follower Of Goethe. Stendhal and
Niet1sche his views on England and Eng.
liah Institutions are distinctly stirring
Rather than be outdOns by HeinS and
StendhAl, or by NistEsohe. he has said
things In print about England which make
the famOuA Egyptian Speech read like
mere sophomOric vapOTings In the pres
ent series he has renewed the charge in
an editorial note and an Introductory
essay. both Of which contain many vigor-
Gus ideas. For instance. he uttss the
timely warning 10 students of Niet1sche
to read him slowly, to think over what
they have read and not TO accept too read
lily a teaching which they have only half
understood 0f Bernard shaw had
practised this system We should have been
spared such an indiEestibls mess a. Man
and Superman.- which despite its glanc-
ing Wit Is = parody oi NietEsche and writ
ten by a socialist. his pet aversiOnD BY
too ready acceptance Of NietEsche Il has
come 10 pass continues Dr. Levy. that
his enemies are as a rule a far superior
body Of men 10 those who call themselves
his eager and enthusiastic follower
Refreshing candor this from Nietzschean
editor.
The truth is that a wave Of Nietascheiam
il sweeping English\ reading countries.
lbssn never had the personal hold on his
auditors that Nietzsche now has. but
the very brilliancy Of phrasing and clarity
Of expression are pitfalls for the all too
human and unwary student Nietzsohe
~ never more enigmatic than when wear
ing the mask Of mooking Greekike bliths-
ness theiterkeitD. and already the path Of
his progress is strewn with the bleaching
bones Of his reckless commentator.
Already the half baked in philosophy are
sending letters 10 the newspapers and
alas picking out his most poetic and least
viable ideas for idolatry This new edi-
ton. containing. as il does. such sterling
studies a. The Birth Of Tragedy and
Homer and Classical PhiloIogy' Chis in
augural address delivered at Basle Univer-
sity. May -. lsoal. will show the hop o the
moon -Nletzscheans' that back Of the
great poet was the sane thinker and man Of
science. Not that We take exception 10
the doctrines. II doctrines they are. Of the
Superman and the Eternal Recurrence.
but that Ne believe these poetic and meta
physical conceptions to be Of leas value
than'his ideas on social subjects Metz /
sche, II should be remembered. vas a great
psychologist, perhaps greater az such |
than az the formulator of a phii0sophic I
system His Superman 10 a counsel Of !
perfection, the Eternal Return an old /
Oriental idea newly presented As 10 his
escaping metaphysics there nav he !
quoted his own desire for a new art, the 4
art q metaphysical comfort That
much misunderstood man Max Stirner
once In writing u the economic part that
money plays in life declared that IL will
always be money For thinkers it will
Ds always metaphysics. let them be
-realists' a. Nietzsche believed himself
10 BE- OF idealists or even our friends With
The smiling modern face. the praRmatiats.
You cant make bricks without straw
without counterparts. or phi
Iosophy without metaphysics There
lore Nietzsche ia no more a short cut 70
he philosophic Parnassus than Kant or
Hegel
The danger of the Nietzschean deluRe
: thls. the very culture -philistines he 20
heartily despised when alive are going
bout with tags and aphOrisms oakei in
heir daily conversation. They utterly
Mistake his liberty for license. not rsaliz-
lg the narrow and tortuous paths he has
repaired for his true disciples. Wagner
Tas for years obscuned by the Wagner
ans Browning by the Browning societies.
We now know that II is the poetry. not his
ebrile shrieking At straw god. that ,
makes Shelley dear 90 ua We know that
Wagner Il IL his music that counts. not
10 preposterous philosophy; in Brown :
ng his marvellous dramatic power and /.
ot the once celebrated Browning pro ,
Nietzsche must take his mud .
aih with the others. though he will sur
i've Il and emerge. not a. 10 many other.
ave. men of reputation. a mud god him
En- The eEegetical literature In EnRlish !
him is multiplying apaoe. and 1
10 rejoice that Il is thus far Of excellent
uality. There are n l.. Mencken's ad-
nirable study. and DR.. ". A. MaRse's
Nietzschs and His Life and Work. a
esune II all that NietEsche taught and
the criticism he evoked. To our notion
ne cleareut and most concise monogram 4
n the subject is The Philosophy Of a
riedrich Nietzsche. by Grace Neal Dol o
IN, A. b., Pm. D.. fernerly fellow Of =
onsll University (the Macmillan Coz.
hen thsrO are Dr. Levy's work referred I,
, above. the selections made by A. r. u
rage: The Quintessence Of Nistszche
= J VI. Kennedy; Who Il 70 Be- Master
the WorId'- by 4. NJ Ludovici. the most y
rilliant translator Of the German master O
this Macmillan series; -On the Tracks -
Life" by Leo q SerA, EnElished by Mr. :
ennedy. But ~ VRGari said Of the Far Y
,sina Palace. non murato ma veraments a
ITO mot built but really bornD. 40 must
e SistEsch@ interpreter have a rsosstv s'
tho Dionysian spirit couraing in his =
'ins TO do the poet and philosopher even y
i'm Justice