The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04

uoaltu, beauty, WolFOeluH, courage, ln- telleot. enevolence-against life it. self This eternal accusation shall write upon all walls; call Christianity the one great curse, the one great. intrinsic depravity for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean GaG mean. call it the one immortal shame and blemish upon the human race"
 Nor is be kindlier toward Judaism toward the Judaism of later days Tt least. He has words of admiration in- deed, for that warrior nation which came flaming out 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 characteristically Nietzschean of all that he has written.
 In the last analysis, Nietzsche taug 2 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 10 make headway against The predatory proclivities of their mas ters. And in the earlier Hebrew, the man of war and conquest, swarming into land of milk and honey and making it his own by the edge of his sword-putting its men, women and children to a bloody death-he beheld his superman, for whom God was synonymous with strength, power, beauty, courage, ruthlessness, ferocity, because these things contributed to the exercise and realization of his Will 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 slaves-the reversed con- dluons 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- tion. Unable to combat their masters with the sword, they resorted to the su preme weapon of the slave Gas Met zsche styles iU; they adopted the moral law as their instrument in the irrepressible struggle for supremacy And thus the characteristics of cow ardfce, timidity, obseQuiousness-t marks of the slaye-Were elevated into virtues. They became love of ones enemies, obedience to God, meekness of heart; and the suppressed envy, malice and coyetousness of these en- slaved 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
 It 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 law. as means of more easily control ling the slaves"
 Such, in brief, are the teachings or the Germanic philosophy
 IL 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 tion of every law that humanity holds sacred, are directly attributable. In the eyes of Germany the Hohenzollern caste are supermen; and, as such clothed with divine right to murder and pillage and lay waste, to lie and intrigue and to do whatever else may promise to further their own sover- eign Will to Power.
 Herein lies the key 10 the character of Kaiser Wilhelm, and of Hindenburg and of Non Tirpitz and of all the long list whose names have become anath-
 
 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 slimy, midnight activities of the most perfectly organized system of espionage the world ever saw, and that projected and maintains the bru- s..i and cowardly "untersee" outrages against international law upon the high s"..s. was this philosophy which insp. "G he war song. "Deutsch, land ult. Allos,"
 Uatl c.v! d lon shall have taught Germany t. rnsic horribleness of this philosoph. until the nations shall have absolul " discredited both II and it's adherent,-there can be no abiding peace. And this F the answer