Sharp County record., 1918-06-14

red blood, all love Sno alI HSpe f0i
life. with It's anaemic ideal OF holiness
1t sets up the other world as q mega
ton Of every reality. The cross Ia the
raIlying post for q conspiracy against
health, beauty, we'll being. courage, IN,
telleot, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LIE H.
self This eternal accusation ]
shall write upon all walls: call
Christianity the one great curse, the
one gseat, intrinsic depravity q.
for which no expedient 10 sufficiently
poisonous, secret, subterranean and
mean. call It the one immortal shame
and blemish upon the human race"
Nor IL hs kindlier toward Judaism
toward the Judaism Of later days nt
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 &C
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 Nietsschean Of all
that he has written.
In the last analysis, Nietssche taugh
q dual system Of morality master
morality for his beloved superman and
slave morality for the masses who
were too impotent, too spiritless or
too foolish to make headway against
the predatory proclivities Of their mas
ters. And in the earlier Hebrew, the
man Of war and conquest swarming
into a land of milk and honey and
making 1t his own by the edge Of his
sword-putting Its men, women and
children to bloody death-he beheld
his superman. for whom God was
synonymous with strength, power,
beauty. courage, ruthlessness, terocity,
because these things contributed to
the exercise and realization OF his Win
to 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.
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; 1t meant extermina.
ton. Unable to combat their masters
with the sword. they resorted to the su,
preme weapon Of the slave (as Met.
zsche styles ~; they adopted the
moral law as their instrument In the
irrepressible struggle for supremacy.
And thus the characteristics of COW.
ardlce. timldlty, obseQuiousness-the
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 covetousness of these en-.
elaved 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.
lty 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.
II 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, 10 lie and
intrigue and to DO whatever else may
promise to further their own sover.
eign VIII to Power.
Herein lies the key to the character
OF Kaiser Wilhelm, and OF Hindenburg
and OF Won Tirpltz 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 slimy, midnight activities ot
the most perfectly organized system
OF espionage the world ever saw, and
that projected and maintains the bru.
tai and cowardly "untersee" outrages
against international law upon tho