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life, with it's anaomic ideal of holiness.
It sets up the other world as a mega
ton Of every reality. The cross is the
rallying post for conspiracy against
health, beauty. well-being, courage. in
teIlect, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES life IT.
self. This eternal accusation ]
shall write upon all walls: call Chris
tianity the one great curse, the one
great, intrinsic depravity> for
which no expedient is sufficiently pol
sonous. secret. subterranean and
mean. l call 1t the one immortal
shame and blemish upon the human
race"
Nor is he kindlier toward Judaism
toward the Judaism of later days, at
least. He has words of admiration,
indeed, for that warrior nation which
came flaming cut of Egyptian bondage
to the conquest Of Palestine; this ac-
corded with his ideal superman. But
that Judaism which followed the Baby
lonian captivity excites only his bitter
contempt. And his dissertation upon
the origin of morality, as taught by
Jewish history, is one Of the most
Enthusiastically Nietzschean Of all
that he has written,
In the last analysis, Nietzsche taught
dual system Of morality-a master
morality for his beloved superman and
slave morality for the masses who
were too impotent, too spiritless or too
foolish to make Roadway against the
predatory proclivities Of their masters.
And in the earlier Hebrew, the man
of war and conquest, swarming into a
land Of milk and honey and making it
his own by the edge of his sword
putting it's men, women and children
to a bloody death-he beheld his su.
perman. with whom God was synony-
nous with strength, power. beauty.
courage, ruthlessness, ferocity. because
these things contributed to the exer-
else and realization of his Will to
Power. and gave him added greatness
and supremacy.
But when the Jews were carried into
captivity-when they were no longer
masters, but slaves-the reversed con-
ditions of their lot (reasoned Met
zsche) reversed for them the defni-
ton Of God. Resort to the sword be-
came, then, the worst thing in the
world for them; it meant extermina-
ton Unable to combat their masters
with the sword, they resorted to the
supreme weapon Of the slave Gas Met
zsche styles it,; they adopted the
moral law as their instrument in the
irrepressible struggle for supremacy.
And thus the characteristics of cow
ardice, timidity. obsequiousness-the
marks Of the slave-were elevated into
virtues. They became love of ones
enemies, obedience to God, meekness
of heart; and the suppressed envy.
malice and covetousness of these en-
shaved people were thus transmitted.
through the alchemy Of the moral law.
into their opposite virtues. Thus in
Christianity Nietzsche beheld the su-
preme triumph Of the slave over the
truly great and powerful and good.
1t is characteristic of the Germanic
philosophy, however, that in spite of
Its terrific condemnation of Christian
ity it would not abolish this. Met
zsche's objections to both Christianity
and the moral law are based. not upon
their intrinsic qualities, but upon the
fact that they impose restrictions upon
the ruthlessness and aggressiveness of
the superman. He would even per-
petuate Christianity and the moral
law, as means of more easily control
ling the slaves"
Such, in brief, are the teachings Of
the Germanic philosophy.
It is to that philosophy that Ger
many's policies of treachery and in
trigue, of falsehood and deceit, Of
ruthless brutality and unblushing vio-
lation Of every law that humanity
holds sacred, are directly attributable.
In the eyes of Germany the Hohen-
zollern caste are supermen; and as
such clothed with divine right to muir
der and pillage and lay waste, to lie
and intrigue and to do whatever else
may promise to further their own SOW
ereign Will to Power.
Herein lies the key to the character
of Kaiser Wilhelm, and Of Hindenburg
and of Won Tirpitz and OF all the long
list whose names have become anath-
ema upon the lips Of civilization.
This explains the wanton tearing Of
that "scrap of paper which preached
the Belgian frontier and poured q
food of barbarian upon an unoffend-
ing people This is the reason-the
horrible unreason-that lies back
Of the Shiny, midnight activities Of the
most perfectly organized system Of
espionage the world ever saw. and that
projected and maintains the brutal
and cowardly "untersee" outrages
against international law upon the
high SEAS 1t was this philosophy which
inspired the war song. Deutschland
uber Alles!"
Until civilization shall have taught
Germany the intrinsic horribleness Of
this philosophy-until the nations
shall have absolutely discredited both
it and its adherents-there can be no