The author's keen critique, com-
bined with his absolutely just and unbiased appreciation
of Nietzsche's contribution to philosophical thought,
furnishes delightful reading in the third part, which portrays
the lonely genius as philosopher, poet, and prophet.
bined with his absolutely just and unbiased appreciation
of Nietzsche's contribution to philosophical thought,
furnishes delightful reading in the third part, which portrays
the lonely genius as philosopher, poet, and prophet.
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is preceded by an introductory essay by the Editor : “The
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“ Nietzsche was a great poet, a great musician, a great scholar, and
a great philosopher. He took from every part of culture, and everything
he touched was shaped and animated by his tremendous personality.
He lived as he wrote-heroically. His life, after his boyhood, was a
long battle with pain, but he never wavered. He worked on until his
brain gave way, worn out at last by his indomitable spirit; and his
work has opened out the possibilities of man's life as widely and as
surely as the work of anyone who has ever lived. It is a benefit to the
community that his work has at length been translated into the English
language. "-The Observer,
* These Volumes-X. , XI. , XII. , XV. , XVI. , and XVII. -may be
strongly recommended as containing the quintessence o Nietzsche.
Readers are advised not to approach * Thus Spake Zarathustra" until
after a perusal of the other volumes.
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
THE RENAISSANCE
BY COUNT ARTHUR DE GOBINEAU
With 20 Illustrations
Translated by Paul V. Cohn, with an Introductory
Essay on Count GOBINEAU's Life and Work,
by Dr OSCAR LEVY
IOS.
(HEINEMANN)
THESE five historical dramas cover the flowering-time of
the Italian Renaissance from the rise to prominence of
Savonarola (1492) to the last days of Michael Angelo (about
1560). While grouped round the leading figures who provide
the titles-Savonarola, Cesare Borgia, Julius II. , Leo X. , and
Michael Angelo—the plays introduce almost every interesting
character of the period. Nor are we only concerned with
the great names : the author aims at catching the spirit of
the people, and the thoughts and feelings of soldier, artisan,
trader, and their womenfolk find ample voice in his pages.
The Italian Renaissance is an epoch of peculiar interest
to English readers, not least because of its profound in-
fluence on our own Elizabethan age. It is perhaps the
most many-sided period in history : even fifth-century Greece
scarcely contributed so much-or at any rate so much that
has survived to the world of politics, art, and thought.
Now while this interest is amply reflected in contemporary
literature, from the monumental work of Symonds down to
the flotsam and jetsam of everyday fiction, there is one kind
of man who more than an historian would show insight into
this age, and that is a poet.
It is as a poet's work that Gobineau's “ Historical Scenes”
recommend themselves to the public. But there are many
kinds of poets : there is the religious and moral kind, there
is the irreligious and sub-moral kind, and there is the super-
religious and super-moral kind. Only the last-named can
understand, can feel, can sympathise with such mighty
figures as Cesare Borgia and Julius II. - the religious
poet being inclined to paint them as monsters, the sub-
religious as freaks and neurotics. Similia similibus : equals
can only be recognised by their equals, and Gobineau was
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THE RENAISSANCE-continued
himself a type of the Renaissance flung by destiny into an age
of low bourgeois and socialist ideals. In a century swayed
by romanticism and democracy, Gobineau was a classic and
an aristocrat. He is a forerunner of Nietzsche ("the only
European spirit I should care to converse with," said
Nietzsche of him in a letter), and as such is peculiarly fitted
to deal with one of the few periods that was not dominated
by the moral law. For this reason Gobineau cannot fail to
attract the large and ever-growing circle of students of
Nietzsche in this country and America.
“I can only add that this is a volume of serious import, worth reading from
cover to cover, a book which even a jaded reviewer closes with a sigh of regret
that he has not got to read it all over again. "-G. S. LAYARD in the Bookman.
“No book that we can recall tells so vividly and in such brilliant style the
story of the finest period of Italy as this 'Renaissance' of Gobineau's. The
glory and the shame of the revival of art and letters, the covetousness, the
cruelties, the licence, mixed up inextricably with the triumphs of painters,
architects, and poets; the passionate desire for self-expression and for mastery
in natures that shrank from no crime, and cast morality and decency, honour
and fidelity to the dogs—these things, the visible demonstrations of the spirit of
that age, are brought out conspicuously by the author's genius, and the men
and women, in whom were the characteristic qualities of the time, live and move
before us on Gobineau's stage. "-Yorkshire Post.
“We scarcely know whether to be more struck with the truth or liveliness of
these portraits. Savonarola, for example, is something more than the Savonarola
of history and tradition. Not only is the character of the man subtly brought
out; not only are we made aware, for the first time, adequately, of that devour.
ing egotism which could see nothing but self as God's instrument, self as the
scourge of Florence, self as the inspired prophet; but beneath all this and
vouching for it is the consciousness of the reality of the man, the consciousness
that his cries of distress are real cries, and his moments of fierce aspiration and
black despair genuine experiences. More touching and even more lifelike is the
figure of Michael Angelo, a figure in the main familiar to us, but endowed with
advancing years with a peace of mind, a lucidity of intelligence, and a breadth
of sympathy such as were foreign to its young and stormy epoch. The last
scene between Michael Angelo and Vittoria Colonna is a noble one, and can be
read more than once with pleasure. ”—The Morning Post.
“A debt is due to Dr Oscar Levy for bringing before English readers this
translation of that great work of Count Gobineau, in which, through the medium
of the drama, he reveals his reverence for the spirit that inspired the Italian
Renaissance. The plays constituting the book are five in number, 'Savonarola,'
*Cesare Borgia,' Julius II. , 'Leo X. ,' and 'Michael Angelo'-and nothing
more brilliant has appeared in recent times. In scope we can only compare
with it Mr Hardy's Dynasts,' but no more striking contrast could be con-
ceived than the creations of these two geniuses. Through the pages of these
plays moves the whole glittering pageant of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen.
turies, a mob of soldiers, priests, artists, men and women, slaying, plundering,
preaching, poisoning, painting, rioting, and loving, while out of the surgent
mass rise the figures of the splendid three, Borgia, Julius, and Michael Angelo,
dominating all by the sheer greatness of their ideas and their contempt for other
men's opinions. They are the great aristocrats of their time, and the five plays-
really one in conception-are an assertion of the saving grace of aristocracy, of
the glory of race, at a time when the democratic food, whose source is
Christianity, was beginning to pour over Europe, to the overwhelming of all
greatness of thought and art. The translation, which is excellent, is by Paul
V. Cobn. - Glasgow Herald.
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
NIETZSCHE AND ART
BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI
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In this work the reader will find all the matter included in Mr Ludo-
vici's stimulating course of lectures recently delivered at University
College, Gower Street, and a good deal more besides. “I have done
two things,” says the author in his preface; “I have given a detailed
account of Nietzsche's general art doctrine, and I have also applied
this doctrine to the graphic arts of to-day and of antiquity. ”
"The finest art, or the ruler art, as he calls it, is that in which the aristocratic
principles of culture, selection, precision, and simplicity are upheld, and this
art can be the flower
and product only of a society in which an aristocratic order
is observed. "-The Daily Telegraph.
ATTA TROLL
BY HEINRICH HEINE
Translated by HERMAN SCHEFFAUER
With an Introduction by Dr OSCAR LEVY
and
Pen-and-Ink Sketches by WILLY POGANY
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“ATTA TROLL,” Heine's favourite work, though written in 1842, is
full of modern significance. The hero is a revolutionary, demo-
cratic dancing, bear, whose ideas of equality and liberty form the
object of Heine's satire. The poein is a fascinating medley of Heine's
inimitable wit, lurking ironic mockery and exquisite poetry, with
touches of romance and tenderness.
The flowing, faithful, yet elastic translation preserves all the
vital charm and racy flavour of the original. Apart from its brilliant
narrative, the anti-demagogic spirit of the poem will strongly com-
mend itself to all admirers of Nietzsche and Gobineau.
This charming volume in a literary and artistic sense has met
with universal praise and admiration.
“. . . The translator is himself a gifted poet, and the tribute in Dr Oscar
Levy's Introduction to the remarkable degree in which he has rendered the
elusive wit, brilliance, and tenderness of the original is thoroughly deserved. "-
Nottingham Guardian.
“The translation is really more like genius than cleverness. "- Expository
Times.
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
THE MASTERY OF LIFE
By G. T. WRENCH
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This book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object
of discovering in the phrase of Nietzsche, “under what conditions
and where the plant man flourished best. ' The review shows that
the patriarchal family has always been the foundation of peoples,
who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life,
and have expressed their joy and power in art works, which have
been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder
of other peoples. On the other hand, peoples who have not based
themselves on the larger humanity of patriarchalism, and who
have not cultivated a masterful aristocracy, have been distinguished
by a weaker and often miserable attitude towards life, and by an
expression, not of power, joy, and quality, but of exhaustion,
pessimism, and doubts about the objects of existence.
The author contrasts the two types of peoples, the orderly and
artistic, and the dehumanised or mechanical, and shows how the
latter may hope to attain to the mastery of life, both social and
individual. But to carry out the change of social basis and values,
a new kind of men is needed, and this need leads the author in the
last pages to advocate as an essential preliminary the self-culture of
power and will, which Nietzsche taught so brilliantly through the
mouth of Zarathustra.
NIETZSCHE: HIS LIFE AND
WORKS
BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI
Preface by Dr OSCAR LEVY
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Materialism, and English Utilitarianism, which is perhaps the first
çriticism of the kind ever attempted from a Nietzschean standpoint,
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ENGLISH LITERATURE (1880-1905)
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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of the pulpit and the lecture-room. ”—PERCIVAL POLLARD, in Town
Topics.
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ON THE TRACKS OF LIFE:
THE IMMORALITY OF MORALITY
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and to students of modern moral problems.
THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
VOLUME ONE
THE YOUNG NIETZSCHE
BY FRAU FOERSTER-NIETZSCHE
Translated by ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI
VOLUME TWO
THE LONELY NIETZSCHE
Translated by PAUL V. COHN, B. A.
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“From the days of my earliest childhood I always regarded my brother as the
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throughout my childhood and youth brought me a lot of teasing and chaff-for
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from the time he was eight years old would now be missing; for when I was
only six, though I attached but slight importance to my own things, I had already
started this collection of my brother's productions. ”
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: :
HIS LIFE AND WORK
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The author's keen critique, com-
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Democracy, and to British Institutions in general.
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THE GOSPEL OF SUPERMAN
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
PROF. HENRI LICHTENBERGER
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BY
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lated into German by Mrs Foerster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche's
descent and early training, his studies, his “intellectual eman-
cipation,"and his philosophicalmessage, are all fully discussed,
while the results of recent research are admirably summed up
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the work.
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WHO IS TO BE MASTER OF
THE WORLD?
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Here we see the philosophy of Nietzsche put into a concentrated
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“NIETZSCHE
By PAUL ELMER MORE
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XVIII. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS
AND INDEX.
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He lived as he wrote-heroically. His life, after his boyhood, was a
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OTHER NIETZSCHEAN LITERATURE
THE RENAISSANCE
BY COUNT ARTHUR DE GOBINEAU
With 20 Illustrations
Translated by Paul V. Cohn, with an Introductory
Essay on Count GOBINEAU's Life and Work,
by Dr OSCAR LEVY
IOS.
(HEINEMANN)
THESE five historical dramas cover the flowering-time of
the Italian Renaissance from the rise to prominence of
Savonarola (1492) to the last days of Michael Angelo (about
1560). While grouped round the leading figures who provide
the titles-Savonarola, Cesare Borgia, Julius II. , Leo X. , and
Michael Angelo—the plays introduce almost every interesting
character of the period. Nor are we only concerned with
the great names : the author aims at catching the spirit of
the people, and the thoughts and feelings of soldier, artisan,
trader, and their womenfolk find ample voice in his pages.
The Italian Renaissance is an epoch of peculiar interest
to English readers, not least because of its profound in-
fluence on our own Elizabethan age. It is perhaps the
most many-sided period in history : even fifth-century Greece
scarcely contributed so much-or at any rate so much that
has survived to the world of politics, art, and thought.
Now while this interest is amply reflected in contemporary
literature, from the monumental work of Symonds down to
the flotsam and jetsam of everyday fiction, there is one kind
of man who more than an historian would show insight into
this age, and that is a poet.
It is as a poet's work that Gobineau's “ Historical Scenes”
recommend themselves to the public. But there are many
kinds of poets : there is the religious and moral kind, there
is the irreligious and sub-moral kind, and there is the super-
religious and super-moral kind. Only the last-named can
understand, can feel, can sympathise with such mighty
figures as Cesare Borgia and Julius II. - the religious
poet being inclined to paint them as monsters, the sub-
religious as freaks and neurotics. Similia similibus : equals
can only be recognised by their equals, and Gobineau was
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THE RENAISSANCE-continued
himself a type of the Renaissance flung by destiny into an age
of low bourgeois and socialist ideals. In a century swayed
by romanticism and democracy, Gobineau was a classic and
an aristocrat. He is a forerunner of Nietzsche ("the only
European spirit I should care to converse with," said
Nietzsche of him in a letter), and as such is peculiarly fitted
to deal with one of the few periods that was not dominated
by the moral law. For this reason Gobineau cannot fail to
attract the large and ever-growing circle of students of
Nietzsche in this country and America.
“I can only add that this is a volume of serious import, worth reading from
cover to cover, a book which even a jaded reviewer closes with a sigh of regret
that he has not got to read it all over again. "-G. S. LAYARD in the Bookman.
“No book that we can recall tells so vividly and in such brilliant style the
story of the finest period of Italy as this 'Renaissance' of Gobineau's. The
glory and the shame of the revival of art and letters, the covetousness, the
cruelties, the licence, mixed up inextricably with the triumphs of painters,
architects, and poets; the passionate desire for self-expression and for mastery
in natures that shrank from no crime, and cast morality and decency, honour
and fidelity to the dogs—these things, the visible demonstrations of the spirit of
that age, are brought out conspicuously by the author's genius, and the men
and women, in whom were the characteristic qualities of the time, live and move
before us on Gobineau's stage. "-Yorkshire Post.
“We scarcely know whether to be more struck with the truth or liveliness of
these portraits. Savonarola, for example, is something more than the Savonarola
of history and tradition. Not only is the character of the man subtly brought
out; not only are we made aware, for the first time, adequately, of that devour.
ing egotism which could see nothing but self as God's instrument, self as the
scourge of Florence, self as the inspired prophet; but beneath all this and
vouching for it is the consciousness of the reality of the man, the consciousness
that his cries of distress are real cries, and his moments of fierce aspiration and
black despair genuine experiences. More touching and even more lifelike is the
figure of Michael Angelo, a figure in the main familiar to us, but endowed with
advancing years with a peace of mind, a lucidity of intelligence, and a breadth
of sympathy such as were foreign to its young and stormy epoch. The last
scene between Michael Angelo and Vittoria Colonna is a noble one, and can be
read more than once with pleasure. ”—The Morning Post.
“A debt is due to Dr Oscar Levy for bringing before English readers this
translation of that great work of Count Gobineau, in which, through the medium
of the drama, he reveals his reverence for the spirit that inspired the Italian
Renaissance. The plays constituting the book are five in number, 'Savonarola,'
*Cesare Borgia,' Julius II. , 'Leo X. ,' and 'Michael Angelo'-and nothing
more brilliant has appeared in recent times. In scope we can only compare
with it Mr Hardy's Dynasts,' but no more striking contrast could be con-
ceived than the creations of these two geniuses. Through the pages of these
plays moves the whole glittering pageant of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen.
turies, a mob of soldiers, priests, artists, men and women, slaying, plundering,
preaching, poisoning, painting, rioting, and loving, while out of the surgent
mass rise the figures of the splendid three, Borgia, Julius, and Michael Angelo,
dominating all by the sheer greatness of their ideas and their contempt for other
men's opinions. They are the great aristocrats of their time, and the five plays-
really one in conception-are an assertion of the saving grace of aristocracy, of
the glory of race, at a time when the democratic food, whose source is
Christianity, was beginning to pour over Europe, to the overwhelming of all
greatness of thought and art. The translation, which is excellent, is by Paul
V. Cobn. - Glasgow Herald.
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NIETZSCHE AND ART
BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI
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In this work the reader will find all the matter included in Mr Ludo-
vici's stimulating course of lectures recently delivered at University
College, Gower Street, and a good deal more besides. “I have done
two things,” says the author in his preface; “I have given a detailed
account of Nietzsche's general art doctrine, and I have also applied
this doctrine to the graphic arts of to-day and of antiquity. ”
"The finest art, or the ruler art, as he calls it, is that in which the aristocratic
principles of culture, selection, precision, and simplicity are upheld, and this
art can be the flower
and product only of a society in which an aristocratic order
is observed. "-The Daily Telegraph.
ATTA TROLL
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object of Heine's satire. The poein is a fascinating medley of Heine's
inimitable wit, lurking ironic mockery and exquisite poetry, with
touches of romance and tenderness.
The flowing, faithful, yet elastic translation preserves all the
vital charm and racy flavour of the original. Apart from its brilliant
narrative, the anti-demagogic spirit of the poem will strongly com-
mend itself to all admirers of Nietzsche and Gobineau.
This charming volume in a literary and artistic sense has met
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“. . . The translator is himself a gifted poet, and the tribute in Dr Oscar
Levy's Introduction to the remarkable degree in which he has rendered the
elusive wit, brilliance, and tenderness of the original is thoroughly deserved. "-
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“The translation is really more like genius than cleverness. "- Expository
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THE MASTERY OF LIFE
By G. T. WRENCH
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This book is a review of the history of civilisation with the object
of discovering in the phrase of Nietzsche, “under what conditions
and where the plant man flourished best. ' The review shows that
the patriarchal family has always been the foundation of peoples,
who have been distinguished for their joy in and power over life,
and have expressed their joy and power in art works, which have
been their peculiar glory and the object of admiration and wonder
of other peoples. On the other hand, peoples who have not based
themselves on the larger humanity of patriarchalism, and who
have not cultivated a masterful aristocracy, have been distinguished
by a weaker and often miserable attitude towards life, and by an
expression, not of power, joy, and quality, but of exhaustion,
pessimism, and doubts about the objects of existence.
The author contrasts the two types of peoples, the orderly and
artistic, and the dehumanised or mechanical, and shows how the
latter may hope to attain to the mastery of life, both social and
individual. But to carry out the change of social basis and values,
a new kind of men is needed, and this need leads the author in the
last pages to advocate as an essential preliminary the self-culture of
power and will, which Nietzsche taught so brilliantly through the
mouth of Zarathustra.
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Materialism, and English Utilitarianism, which is perhaps the first
çriticism of the kind ever attempted from a Nietzschean standpoint,
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THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
VOLUME ONE
THE YOUNG NIETZSCHE
BY FRAU FOERSTER-NIETZSCHE
Translated by ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI
VOLUME TWO
THE LONELY NIETZSCHE
Translated by PAUL V. COHN, B. A.
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Frau Foerster-Nietzsche is admirably supplied with first-hand
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concerning her brother, who was only two years her senior. Her
method is perhaps best shown in the following paragraph :-
“From the days of my earliest childhood I always regarded my brother as the
highest authority. . . . But this reverence which I showed for Fritz and which,
throughout my childhood and youth brought me a lot of teasing and chaff-for
at heart I am not a believer in authority-certainly had one excellent practical
result in the shape of the Nietzsche archives, the extraordinary rich contents of
which have been collected by myself alone. From a very early age I have
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And if from the first he had not been so fond of burning things, and had not
occasionally made such raids upon my precious hoard, not one of his compositions
from the time he was eight years old would now be missing; for when I was
only six, though I attached but slight importance to my own things, I had already
started this collection of my brother's productions. ”
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: :
HIS LIFE AND WORK
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The author's keen critique, com-
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Democracy, and to British Institutions in general.
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THE GOSPEL OF SUPERMAN
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
PROF. HENRI LICHTENBERGER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
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PROF. LICHTENBERGER'S book, while containing sections
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while the results of recent research are admirably summed up
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WHO IS TO BE MASTER OF
THE WORLD?
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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“NIETZSCHE
By PAUL ELMER MORE
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PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT
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ground that in Nietzsche's life-work a totally new stand-
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him from all dry-as-dust philosophers, especially those of
German origin. As the Yorkshire Weekly Post of roth
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ment of German thought like a bright particular star.
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The translations have won high praise from press and
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