The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-09-18

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modern great peoples, except the
German, it is apparent that he looked
upon the Fatherland as the birth
place of the warrior king and the
warrior race of men who were toi
transform the face of the world.
Great ones might be found elsewhere,
indeed, fit to be enrolled among the
company of the supermen, but theI
momentum which was TO produce the
whole type of superman would now
from Germany. One quality Metz
sche's supreme superman and his
knights must possess, which was not
possessed by Napoleon-namely, a.
clean life physically-and the worst
detractors of the Emperor William
have never limited that he does not
fulfill in this respect Nietzsche's
ideal. But, as will be shown, all other
moralities, such as We kown them,
were to count as nothing, and, indeed,
were to be held in contempt The
first aim of society is the support of
the superman; towards that all in
dustry shall be directed:-"I love
him who liveth in order to know,
and seeketh to know in order that
the superman may hereafter live. l
love him who laboureth and inves-
teth that he may build the house for
the superman, and prepare for him
earth, animal, and plant. So l am
a herald of the lightning and heavy
drop out of the cloud: the lightning
however, is the superman." Metz
sche or the kaiser?
The warrior king and his warrior
race of men would conquer the world,
and, as a first installment, would
found 1.-THE United States of Europe"
More fresh air." cries Nietzsche,
more fresh air, for heavens sake!
This condition of Europe must not
last any longer. Is there a single idea
behind this bovine nationalism?"
Which reminds one curiously of the
kaiser's excited demand for "a place
in the sum-" just as the tearing up of
the treaty safeguarding Belgium, and
the frank acknowledgment of the in
fraction by the German chancellor,
initiated Neitzsche's own contempt
for bovine nationalism." Does any
one think the parallel is being pushed
too far? If so, how can the doubter
explain this further fact-that from
the day of his cornation the kaiser
has steadily set his face against be-
ing styled 1.-the German Emperor"
He Gales himself 'the Emperor of
Germany" and will brook no other
title. In other words, he belongs to
no nationality; Germany is in poten-
iality the United States of Europe"
over which there will rule only one
emperor. This matter of the kaiser's
choice of title might be merely anus
ing, if we did not know that Nietzsche
again had pointed the way:-"Oh, my
brethren, I consecrate you, and
point you new nobility: We shall
become procreators and cultivators
and sewers of the fu:ure.-
Let it not be your honour hence
forth whence We came but whittier We
co." +. ooh, my brethren.
not backward shall your nobility
gaze, but outward? Exiles shall We
be from all Netherlands and fore
father lands" "Your
children's land shall We love, let this
be your new nobility-the undiscov-
cred in the remotest seas! For it do
bid your sails seach and seach!
Events have proved how the hearts
of the rulers of Germany have be-
come infiamed by Nietzsche's twin
visions of the superman and conquest
of the world. In themselves, these
ambitions, though arrogant, are not
ignoble. 1t is when we come to con-
slider the moral sanctions which shall
entitle the superman to override the
earth, at the expense Of all other
human beings. that there stands ex-
posed the most gigantic and revelu-
tionary conspiracy in history. At
this stage. Nietzsche formulates his
doctrine of "The Will to Power" He
knew that all nations recognized and
defended The Will to Live" there
fore he goes further-not existence
but conquest is the lesson to be learn
ed. AS usual. he takes his argument
from biology:-"Wherever 1 found al
living thing, there found | the Will
to Power: and even in the will of the
servant found / the will to be mas
ter. Neither necessity nor desire, but
the love Of power. is the demon of