The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-13
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
VIVA, Caused This Grea, War?


the teaching of Nietzsche the Philoso-
pher of the Twill to Power and of
'ImmoraIism." In his work ''Of the
Pitiful' he uses these words, 81 warn
you against pity; from it VIII one day
arise heavy cloud for men.
Verify, | am weatherwise. " He would
exclude pity from the human breast.
Extract that and you leave cruelty and
hate to rankle there and make brutes
of men. In his work, Human, All
Too Human" he says much that is
dreadful and inhuman in history, much
that one Hardly likes to believe, is
mutigated by the reflection that the
one who commands and the one who
carries out are different persons. The
former does not behold the sight, there
fore does not experience the strong i'm
preston on the imagination; the latter
obeys superior and therefore feels no
responsibility 1t is not difficult to
see where this will lead to.
Simply because the superior does not
see the horrible consequence of his
orders, he can 60 to the greatest ex-
tremes, while the inferior can play the
part of butcher-a human butcher at
that-and not feel any pity or sense of
responsibility because he Is merely
obeying orders.
We can readily understand now how
this famous teacher could say, "One
must resist all sentimental weakness.
Lite is in its essence appropriation
injury, the overpowerng Of whatever
is foreign to US and weaker than our
selves, suppression, hardness, the fore
ing upon others Of our own forms, the
incorporation of others, or at the very
least and mildest, their exploitation. "
breast Tor s. ntiment. That is weak
ness. He would convert his pupils in,
to beasts in human form. He might as
well say at once. might makes right. 3"
Indeed he has said it, and so hesita.es
not to inculcate his obnoxious and abom-
Unable heresy. In his Beyond Good
and Evil" he makes this statement,
"a morality of the ruling class, (has
for) its principle that one has duties
only to ones equals; that one may act
towards beings of lower rank, to-
wards all that is foreign, just as seems
good to one.
That is to say, we can inflict any
wrong or injury upon an inferior, that
we please. We may defraud them Of
all their rights and liberties, of every
thing they hold dear, even life itself.
In the same work he says, "A new type
of philosophers and commanders will
some time or other be needed. At the
very idea of which everything that has
existed in the way of occult, terrible
and BENEVOLENT o. beings might look
pale and dwarfed. The image of such
leaders hovers before our eyes. Thu
conditions which one would have partly
to create and partly to utilize for their
genesis include a transyaluatlon Of
values, under the new pressure and
hammer of ~ hich conscience be steel
ed and heart transformed to brass, so
as to bear the weight Of such respon-
sibility." 1t looks as if that crop of
leaders are now on the stage in Ger
many at least.
In his "Genealogy of Morals" he
says, Those very men who are so
strictly kept within bounds by good
manners, who. in their behaviour to one
another, show themselves so invention
in consideration, self control, deliacy,
loyalty, pride and friendship those
very men are to the out side world. to
things foreign and to foreign countries,
little better than so many uncaged
beasts of prey. Here they enjoy liberty
from all social restraint, and become
REJOICING monsters, who perhaps 60 on
their way, after hideous sequence of
murder, confagation violation. torture,
with as much gaiety and equanimity as
If they had merely taken part in some
student gambols.
Deep in the nature of all these noble
races there turks Enthusiastically the
beast of prey, the blond beast, Iustfully
rowing in search of booty and victory.
Such teaching is bearing a big crop of
fruit in his own country. 1t isn't any
wonder that lust is exaulted to a virtue,
and illegitimacy is at premium.
Plura! wives is the legitimate outcome
of this. Concubinage is popularized
and virtue is relegated to the rear.
Again he says, that lambs should
bear grudge against the great birds
of prey is in no way surprising, but
that is no reason why we should blame
the great birds of prey for picking up
the lambs.
To demand Of strength that 1t should
not manifest itself as strength that it
should not be will for overcoming, for
overthrowlng, for mastery, thirst for
enemies, for struggles and triumphs, is
as absurd as to demand of weakness
that it should manifest itself as