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ed the equality of souls efore Gf d"
that cover for All the rancor Of tn
useless ami base. II combats all good
red blood. all love and all hope 70
| life, with its anaemic ideal OF holiness
I III sets up the other world as mega
ton OF every reality. The cross is ths
rallying post for conspiracy agains'
health. beauty, welI-being, courage, in
tellect, beneyolenee-against life 1t
self This eternal accusation
shall write upon all walls: | call
Christianity the one great curse, tho
one great, intrinsic depravity
for which no expedient is sufficiently
poisonous, secret, subterranean and
meant call it the one immortal shame
and blemish upon the human race"
Nor is he kindlier toward Judaism
toward the Judaism of later days a
least. He has words of admiration, in
deed, for that warrior nation whicf
came flaming out Of Egyptian bondage
to the conquest of Palestine; this ac
corded with his ideal superman Blu
that Judaism which followed the Baby
lonian captivity excites only his bitter
contempt. And his dissertation upor
the origin Of morality, as taught BY
Jewish history, is one of the most
Enthusiastically Nietzschean of ali
that he has written
In the last analysis, Nietzsche taug'
dual system of morality--a master
morality for his beloved superman and
a slave morality for the masses who
were too impotent. too spiritless OF
too foolish to make headway agains
the predatory proclivities of their mas
ters. And in the earlier Hebrew, the
man OF war and conquest, swarmlng
into a land Of milk and honey and
making it his own by the edge of his
sword-putting its men, women and
children to bloody death--he behel6
mis- superman, for whom God was
synonymous with strength, power
beauty, courage. ruthlessness, ferocity
because these things contributed to
the exercise and realization Of his VIII
10 Power, and gave him added great
ness and supremacy.
But when the Jews were carried into
captIvity-when they were no longer
masters, but slayes-the reversed cor.
ditions of their lot (reasoned Met
zsche) reversed for them the defini.
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 su
preme 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 1t would not abolish this. Met
zsche's objections TO both Christianity
and the moral law are based, not upon
their intrinsic qualities, but upon tn,
fact that they impose restrictions upon
The ruthlessness and aggressiyeness Of
the superman. He would even per
petuate Christianity and the mora
law, as means of more easily control
ling the Slaves"
Such, in brief, are the teachings o.
the Germanic philosophy.
1t is to that philosophy that Ger
many's policies of treachery and in
trigue, OF falsehood and deceit, of ruth
less brutality and unblushing viola
ton of every law that humanity hold
sacred, are directly attributable. II
the eyes of Germany the Hohenzoller1
caste are supermen; and, as sucn
clothed with divine right to murder
and pillage and lay waste, to lie and
ANAASAS anu W W Whatever else may
promise to further their own sover
eign 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 a
flood of barbarism 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
or espionage the world ever saw, and
that projected and maintains the bru-
tai and cowardly "untersee" outrages
against International law upon the
high seas. 1t was this philosophy
which inspired the war song, "Deutsch-
land uber Alles!"
Until civilization shall have taught
Germany the intrinsic horribleness of
this philosophy-until the nations
shall have absolutely discredited both
1t and its adherents-there can be no
abiding peace And this is the answer
to many questions about the great
struggle.