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GENTLENESS—GERMAN
Gentleness, on vigorous natures, and striving for, ix. 236.
Geography, medical, the need of, vii. 288.
German culture, in relation to Schopenhauer's philosophy,
ii. 65-9.
— and the Franco-German war, iv. 3; its characteristics
since the war, 6; Goethe's conversation with
Eckermann on the subject, quoted, 9; its charac-
ter identified by the culture-philistine, 13.
— the Franco-German war and, v. 162; the fashionable
desire for good form, 164.
— the cast-off system of, and its substitute, ix. 187.
— as associated with a feeling of decline, xiv. 74; and
the discovery of the Greek, 74.
— the mistrust inspired by, xiv. 88.
— alluded to, xvi. 53.
German language, the, the system of teaching, in private
schools, iii. 47; no thought given to culture, 55.
— on the tone of, x. 141-4.
German music, to be despaired of, i. 12; its oneness with
German philosophy, 152; to whom we are in-
debted for, 176.
— alluded to, v. 59.
— the growth, capabilities, and characteristics of, x.
139.
— on Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, xii. 200-2; pre-
cautions against necessary, 216; the super-Ger-
man music of the future, 217.
— its culminating point in German romanticism, xiv. 89.
German orchestra, the, the species of men who form,
iii. 141; the honest conductor of, 141 ; the
effect of a genius amongst, 142.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI. Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
German philosophy, and its oneness with German music,
i. 152.
— its importance, xiv. 332 ; as a form of romanticism,
334-5; growing daily more and more Greek,
German Reformation, the, i. 176.
See also under " Reformation. "
German spirit, the, and its return to itself, i. 152;
efforts of Goethe, Schiller, and Winckelmann
to ally it with Greek culture, 153 et seq. ; its
"Dionysian" strength, 184; hopes for, 185.
— the hopes for its victory over the now fashionable
pseudo-culture, iii. 67; at variance with the
State-promoted education and culture, 88; the
present nobility, and future victory of, 90; criti-
cised, 92 ; and the universities, 136.
— the rise and establishment of a new conception of,
xii. 148.
— and Christianity, xiv. 71 ; and progress, 1788-1888,
72.
Germanism, on, vii. 143; to be a good German means
to de-Germanise oneself, 154.
Germans, the, the true virtuosi of philistinism, ii. 66;
advice to, regarding culture, 69.
— and French conventions, v. 34; their inner life and
its outward expression, 35; their springs of
hope and belief, 37; their goal, 38.
— their enmity towards enlightenment, ix. 198; their
characteristics, 217; advantages and disadvan-
tages, 218-9; their attitude to morality, 219;
capabilities of rising above morals, 221.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GERMANS—GERMANY
Germans, non-Christian qualifications of, x. 181; the
original meaning of "Deutsch," 181.
— their ideal, which led to great hopes alluded to by
Zarathustra, xi. 67.
— as having as yet no to-day, xii. 192; described psycho-
logically and as a people, 196-200; as a fructify-
ing nation, 206 ; their anti-semitism, 207 ; their
classical reputation for the art of commanding
and obeying, 209.
— the Mephistophelian nature of the German observed
with pleasure, xiii. 217 ; the German's soul, 219;
reflect something of the deep pensive earnestness
of their mystics and musicians, 221.
— their evolution (becoming), xiv. 90.
— Things the Germans lack, (Chap, vii. ) xvi. 50-9; the
psychological tact of, 72; German nobility and
the Crusades, 227; their destruction of the
Renaissance, 228-30; to blame, if we never get
rid of Christianity, 230.
— cannot understand music, xvii. 45; home truths for,
123; Wagner an exception among, 129.
. Germany, the narrow specialisation on the part of learned
I men admired in, iii. 39-40.
— the land of " little by little," v. 90.
— the German theatre, vii. 85; German sentimentality,
86; poets, 86 ; culture, 87; music, 88; what is
German according to Goethe, 144; on German
thinkers and thinking, 151; foreignisms, 155-7;
German classical writers, 258.
— the German way, viii. 70.
— the problem—what is German among the acquisitions
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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of philosophical thought for which we have to
thank German intellect 1 x. 305-11.
Germany, her learned men who possess wit, xiii. 220; that
famous childlike character which divines, 221 ; ,
peasant blood, the best blood in Germany, 222;
the intergrowth of German and Slav races re-
quired, 223; other requirements for her to be-
come master of the world, 224.
— her poverty in great souls, xv. 237.
— German intellect, xvi. 4 ; again, 51 ; as becoming ever
more and more the flat-land of Europe, 53;
her educational system, 55-9; the Emperor
Frederick's attitude towards Rome and Islam,
227.
— German cookery in general, xvii. 30; Nietzsche
speaks a few home truths for Germans, 123;
her attempt to make his (Nietzsche's) great fate
give birth merely to a mouse, 126; represented
by Schleiermachers, 126; German intellect as
Nietzsche's foul air, 127; German, as the inter-
national epithet denoting depravity, 127; her
Emperor and the liberation of slaves, 127;
Nietzsche's ambition to be considered a despiser
of, 128; the reception given in, to Nietzsche's
books, 130.
Gervinus. his interpretation of Shakespeare, i. 171; alluded
to, 161.
— as literary historian, iii. 60.
— his criticisms of Goethe and Schiller, iv. 33; his
warmth for Lessing, 34; and Beethoven's ninth
symphony, 39.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GESNER—GOD
Gesner quoted, viii. 140.
Gesture and speech, vi. 193-5.
Gethsemane, vii. 26.
Geulincx, the despectus sui of, xiii. 176.
Gibbon (Edward) quoted on time and history, v. 90.
Gifts, the value of, wherein the noblest are mistaken, ix. 320.
Giving and bestowing—the donor's modesty, ix. 330.
Giving and taking, on, vii. 159.
Gloominess, concerning the history of modern, xiv. 56;
in the last centuries—as following in the wake
of enlightenment, 73.
Gluck, his dispute with Piccini alluded to, vii. 272.
Goals, on fixing nothing in excess of attainment, ix. 388.
— The thousand and one Goals (Zarathustra's discourse),
xi. 65-8; Zarathustra and his shadow—on men
without a goal, 332-6.
— if the world had had a goal it would have been reached,
xvi. 243; are being annihilated, 259; thenecessity
for new, 260; mankind's goal must be above it-
self, 269.
Gobineau, a jocular saying of (note), vi. 229.
God, the hypothesis of a, vi. 43; the Christiajmentofthe
ing himself with, 133-4; the Chris| Qft 30; tne
tion of, 136; the conception of^h t0 existence
God, 222- nation that be-
— the evolution of the idea of, vii. 115-}0d just as ur.
of regarding God as a personalit 1. ^ . tne G0d.
— the honesty of, ix. 90; on proving the ecline'and fall of
— former feelings of the worshippers of. lcept 0f I46 - de-
x. 97 ; the shadow of, shown n<eoydecay . . [^ .
151; various shadows of, agair. tributeS. ,S3; jew.
Human, ii. VII, Case of Wagner. IX, Daawn of Day x Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Eviu XIII.
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power,; xv Will to Power
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo. ''
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
be on our guard, x. 151; the parable of the mad-
man seeking the dead, 167; churches, tombs,
and monuments of, 169; the conditions for, 172;
Christian attributes of, too oriental, 178; "God
is dead"—what our cheerfulness signifies, 275.
God, dead, xi. 6; Hove him who chasteneth his Godbeeause
he loveth his God, 11; the God of the backworlds-
man, 32; I would only believe in a God who
knew how to dance, 45; could ye create a God!
Then I pray you be silent about all Gods.
Could
ye conceive a God? 99; the Christian conception
of—evil do I call it, and misanthropic, 100; of
his pity for man hath God died, 105; the serpent
in the mask of the pure ones, 147; the five
words of the nightwatchmen, 221 ; Zarathustra's
heart writhes with laughter, 222; he encounters
the last Pope, and they discuss the old dead
God, 315-20; his encounter with the murderer
of God—the ugliest man—the atheist, 322-6;
equality before, 351; dead—now do we desire
the superman to live, 351.
k» Cross, the paradox of the formula, xii. 65 ; the
Nitssion tor, instances of Luther, St. Augustine,
0I, 1-ame de Guyon, 69; refutations regarding,
books the sacrifice of, the paradoxical mystery of
Gervinus,hisint,ate cruelty, 74; allusions to, 85.
toi 16 through fear of ancestors, xiii. 107 ; the
— as literary hg 0f owing a debt to, 109; personally im-
— his criticism^g himself for the debt of man, m ; man's
warmth iof debt to, becomes his instrument of
symphony 12; the origin of the holy God, 112;
The volumes referred 1 to „„,*„. numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early . QjU}l philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, ; Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Huma,an, ail-loo-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOD
Christian and Greek concepts compared, 114;
the conqueror of God—the superman foretold,
117; the atrocious Christian form of hobnob-
bing with, 189; theological dogmatism about,
202; the agnostic query as God, 202.
God, the name given to all that renders weak, teaches
weakness, and infects with weakness, xiv. 46;
the hypothesis, 94; the idea of, as saviour, 95;
the god as part of the invention of the holy lie,
122; the concept of, what it represents, 123;
psychological falsity of, as imagined according
to man's own petty standard, 199-201; the
greatest immoralist—the good God, 251.
— in the concept " God as Spirit," God as perfection is
denied, xv. 40; the spiritualisation of the idea,
not a sign of progress, 76; the only possible
way of upholding the concept, 122; the cul-
minating moment, 181; the belief in, as immoral,
395; moralised by the modern man, ever more
and more, 408 ; Zarathustra quoted concerning,
409.
— the problem, God—Man, xvi. 2; the attainment of the
concept, 20; Christian conceptions of, 30; the
concept, as the greatest objection to existence
hitherto, 43; the need of, by a nation that be-
lieves in itself, 142; the evil God just as ur-
gently needed as the good God, 143; the God-
head of decadence, 144; the decline and fall of
a God, 145; the Christian concept of, 146 ; de-
nounced—this hybrid creature of decay . . . 147;
reasons for his person and attributes, 153; Jew-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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be on our guard, x. 151; the parable of the mad-
man seeking the dead, 167; churches, tombs,
and monuments of, 169; the conditions for, 172;
Christian attributes of, too oriental, 178; "God
is dead"—what our cheerfulness signifies, 275.
God, dead, xi. 6; Hove him who chasteneth his God because
he loveth his God, 11;the God of the backworlds-
man, 32; 1 would only believe in a God who
knew how to dance, 45; could ye create a God?
Then I pray you be silent about all Gods. Could
ye conceive a God1 99; the Christian conception
of—evil do I call it, and misanthropic, 100; of
his pity for man hath God died, 105; the serpent
in the mask of the pure ones, 147; the five
words of the nightwatchmen, 221 ; Zarathustra's
heart writhes with laughter, 222; he encounters
the last Pope, and they discuss the old dead
God, 315-20; his encounter with the murderer
of God—the ugliest man—the atheist, 322-6;
equality before, 351; dead—now do we desire
. the superman to live, 351.
Efc Cross, the paradox of the formula, xii. 65 ; the
Niession tor, instances of Luther, St. Augustine,
of, ii'ame de Guyon, 69; refutations regarding,
books the sacrifice of, the paradoxical mystery of
Gervinus, his intiate cruelty, 74; allusions to, 85.
to, 16i through fear of ancestors, xiii. 107 ; the
— as literary hg of owing a debt to, 109; personally im-
— his criticismng himself for the debt of man, i1 1 ; man's
warmth tof debt to, becomes his instrument of
symphony^ 12; the origin of the holy God, 112;
The volumes referred ( to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early > Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, \ Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Humaum, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOD
Christian and Greek concepts compared, 114;
the conqueror of God—the superman foretold,
117; the atrocious Christian form of hobnob-
bing with, 189; theological dogmatism about,
202; the agnostic query as God, 202.
God, the name given to all that renders weak, teaches
weakness, and infects with weakness, xiv. 46;
the hypothesis, 94; the idea of, as saviour, 95;
the god as part of the invention of the holy lie,
122; the concept of, what it represents, 123;
psychological falsity of, as imagined according
to man's own petty standard, 199-201; the
greatest immoralist—the good God, 251.
— in the concept " God as Spirit," God as perfection is
denied, xv. 40; the spiritualisation of the idea,
not a sign of progress, 76; the only possible
way of upholding the concept, 122; the cul-
minating moment, 181; the belief in, as immoral,
395; moralised by the modern man, ever more
and more, 408 ; Zarathustra quoted concerning,
409.
— the problem, God—Man, xvi. 2; the attainment of the
concept, 20; Christian conceptions of, 30; the
concept, as the greatest objection to existence
hitherto, 43; the need of, by a nation that be-
lieves in itself, 142; the evil God just as ur-
gently needed as the good God, 143; the God-
head of decadence, 144; the decline and fall of
a God, 145; the Christian concept of, 146 ; de-
nounced—this hybrid creature of decay . . . 147;
reasons for his person and attributes, 153; Jew-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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ish priestly ideas regarding the will of, xvi. 158; the
kingdom of God, 159; the Christian needs God
was created to suit, 168; the Christian God as
God denied, 196; his infernal panic over science,
197; the Bible story of the creation of the
world, 198; why man was drowned by, 199;
the pagan conception of, 214.
God, the concept of, not even real, xvii. 52; invented as
the opposite of the concept life—all deadly
hostility to life was bound together in one hor-
rible unit in Him, 142.
Gods, the creation of, by the Greeks through direct
necessity, i. 35; their justification of the life
of man, 35.
— the God as part of the invention of the holy lie,y\\. 122.
Goethe, his efforts to bring about an alliance between
German and Greek culture, i. 153 et seq. ; Faust
quoted, 14, 71, 79, 80, 83, 104, 140; his Pro-
metheus quoted, 76; his Conversations with
Eckermann quoted, 137; again quoted, 170.
— to dramatic musicians, ii. 46; and German historical
culture, 67 ; and purification through thephysis,
75; alluded to, 83.
— his epilogue to The Bell quoted, iii. 11; the stand-
ard of culture established by, 60; effects of Ger-
man culture on, 105; his friendship with Schil-
ler, 107; his epilogue to The Bell referred to,
107; the age of, and the demand for culture,
114; relates an opinion regarding Schiller's Rob-
bers, 138; his recantation of Wolfs theories re-
garding Homer quoted, 149; on Homer, 156.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI. Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOETHE
Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann quoted; the culture
of thrt German nation, iv. 9-10; the criticism of
Gervinus referred to, 33; on the exceptional
man, ,^5; on Lessing, 36; on his first reading
the systeme de la nature, 58; and Wagner: their
exceptional characters compared, 116; poetry
L'i the case of Goethe, 149; and Wagner again,
i. 56 ; the rehearsals of Jphigenia, 169; with Leo-
pardi—astraggler of the Italian philologist poets,
195; alluded to, 78, 81, 106, 108.
— on instruction that does not quicken, v. 3; quoted,
16; before the monument of Steinbach, 25; on
Shakespeare, 43; his demand for science, 64;
his study of Newton alluded to, 65; the ques-
tion as to his having outlived himself, 73; on
the reception given to Hartmann's mock gos-
pel, 81; his style, and that of Schopenhauer,
115; quoted, 117; his strength to hold out
against so-called German culture, 120; and cul-
ture-philistines, 121; humanity, and the men
of, 139; Goethe's man depicted, 140; Wilhelm
Meister and Faust quoted, 142; quoted, 147;
again, 154; his influence, 163; Schopenhauer's
rare happiness at seeing him, 182; the demand
for lectures on, 199.
— quoted, vi. 116; again, 118; his religious unconcern,
128; his influence on modern poetry, 203; his
estimate of Shakespeare, 203; on the highest
power of man, 245; quoted, 394; again, 399;
alluded to, 165, 250.
— on Sterne, vii. 60; stands above the Germans, 86;
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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IN DEX—NIETZSCHE
his errors: a criticism, vii. 123 ; tv his nobleness,
143; on what is German, 144; hiKs Conversations
with Eckermann, the best Germain book in exist-
ence, 250 ; not merely a great mi can, but a culture,
259; on Bach's music, 267; ocVkcasional dry-as-
dust elements of, 303; alluded to\ 56, 91, i39,
178, 249, 254. \
Goethe, his fate in old-maidish Germany, viii. aj; what he
would have thought of Wagner, 9; rliis feelings
in regard to Christianity recalled, 50 A the over-
flow of life as creative in, 67; quotedj, 86; on
Byron, 88; his nobility instanced, 93; quoted,
98; the appearance of, as a great event in phil-
ology, 120; on the emulation of the ancients,
133; as the poet-scholar, 139; the paganism
in Winckelmann glorified by, 145; referred to
again, 149; his knowledge instanced, 171; his
knowledge of antiquity, 179; as a German poet-
philologist, 181; alluded to, 71, 92.
— and culture in Germany, ix. 188; German philosophy
and, 199; alluded to, 338, 347.
— his loquacity, x. 130; the Germans and Faust, 192;
his paganism with a good conscience, 305.
— his prose style, xii. 41; his meeting with Napoleon,
149; his critical estimate of the Germans, 198;
on English mechanical stultification, 210; as a
master of new modes of speech, 218, 219;
quoted, 241; Faust quoted, 255.
— his thirty-six tragic situations—the ascetic priest knows
more, xiii. 184-5; his conception of Mephisto-
pheles, 217; alluded to, 123, 221, 224.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOETHE—GOOD
s
Goethe, bis mode of thinking not far removed from that of
Hegei, xiv. 80; his attempt to overcome the
eightetnth century, 87; his feeling about the
Cross. 147; alluded to, 96, 318.
— his worka, xv. 76; Germany's hostility to, recalled,
203; his joy in the things of this world, 263;
his Greeks, 269 ; the element of, found in Schiitz
and Mendelssohn—Rahel and Heine, 271;
quoted, 277; instanced, 281 ; characteristic of
the strong German type, 318; with Napoleon,
conquered the eighteenth century, 397; in-
stanced, 417; again, beside Dionysus, 419.
— and the French Revolution, xvi. 54; his attempted
ascent to the naturalness of the Renaissance,
109; the last German respected by Nietzsche,
i1 1; his conception of the Hellenic, 118; as
Zarathustra's predecessor, 273; alluded to, 55,
73-
— could not have breathed Zarathustra's atmosphere,
xvii. 106; alluded to, 119.
Gogol, instanced, viii. 76.
— alluded to, xii. 245.
Gold, the inordinate desire for, as a means to power, ix.
209; as unsatisfying in the end, 342.
— as the image of the highest virtue, xi. 86.
Goldmark, and Wagner, viii. 46.
Goncourt, the brothers, alluded to, viii. 20.
— their love of ugliness, xv. 264.
— asAjaxes, fighting with Homer, xvi. 60; alluded to, 65.
Good, the, at one time new, vii. 47-8; on willing the
good and being capable of the beautiful, 160.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zaraihustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Good, the first degree of, ix. 37; the neces/his n'a1j deskxarko
of everything, 352. * Cm
— the birth of logical, x. 156. /*n ^
— what is good? the little girl's answeF1' , \ ii 52.
— its evolution, which elects to appeal**. . 1011' to a limited
number of ears, xiii. 24; as the. , 9 1evengeful
man has thought it out, 44; a belief! of revenge
and hatred " that the strong has the oft' *ti>n of being
weak, and the bird of prey of being a I1S 'lamb' 46.
— defined as strength, xvi. 128; whom . ""and what
people call the good, 259. °
— the harm of, xvii. 136; the object of the'H! ™«i«n,
to favour all that ought to be wiped out, 143.
Good, the, and the just, xi. 20; Zarathustra finds them
the most poisonous flies, 227; the harm of the
good is the harmfullest harm, 259; Zarathustra
prays for the breaking up of the good and the
just, 260.
— the good and the bad as types of decadence, xiv. 35;
a criticism of the good man, 282-90.
— whom and what people call the good, xvi. 259.
— the harm done by, xvii. 136; would call superman
the devil, 137.
of Season, ii. VI, Human. ail-too-Human, i. VII. Human, ail-too-
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GENTLENESS—GERMAN
Gentleness, on vigorous natures, and striving for, ix. 236.
Geography, medical, the need of, vii. 288.
German culture, in relation to Schopenhauer's philosophy,
ii. 65-9.
— and the Franco-German war, iv. 3; its characteristics
since the war, 6; Goethe's conversation with
Eckermann on the subject, quoted, 9; its charac-
ter identified by the culture-philistine, 13.
— the Franco-German war and, v. 162; the fashionable
desire for good form, 164.
— the cast-off system of, and its substitute, ix. 187.
— as associated with a feeling of decline, xiv. 74; and
the discovery of the Greek, 74.
— the mistrust inspired by, xiv. 88.
— alluded to, xvi. 53.
German language, the, the system of teaching, in private
schools, iii. 47; no thought given to culture, 55.
— on the tone of, x. 141-4.
German music, to be despaired of, i. 12; its oneness with
German philosophy, 152; to whom we are in-
debted for, 176.
— alluded to, v. 59.
— the growth, capabilities, and characteristics of, x.
139.
— on Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, xii. 200-2; pre-
cautions against necessary, 216; the super-Ger-
man music of the future, 217.
— its culminating point in German romanticism, xiv. 89.
German orchestra, the, the species of men who form,
iii. 141; the honest conductor of, 141 ; the
effect of a genius amongst, 142.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI. Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
German philosophy, and its oneness with German music,
i. 152.
— its importance, xiv. 332 ; as a form of romanticism,
334-5; growing daily more and more Greek,
German Reformation, the, i. 176.
See also under " Reformation. "
German spirit, the, and its return to itself, i. 152;
efforts of Goethe, Schiller, and Winckelmann
to ally it with Greek culture, 153 et seq. ; its
"Dionysian" strength, 184; hopes for, 185.
— the hopes for its victory over the now fashionable
pseudo-culture, iii. 67; at variance with the
State-promoted education and culture, 88; the
present nobility, and future victory of, 90; criti-
cised, 92 ; and the universities, 136.
— the rise and establishment of a new conception of,
xii. 148.
— and Christianity, xiv. 71 ; and progress, 1788-1888,
72.
Germanism, on, vii. 143; to be a good German means
to de-Germanise oneself, 154.
Germans, the, the true virtuosi of philistinism, ii. 66;
advice to, regarding culture, 69.
— and French conventions, v. 34; their inner life and
its outward expression, 35; their springs of
hope and belief, 37; their goal, 38.
— their enmity towards enlightenment, ix. 198; their
characteristics, 217; advantages and disadvan-
tages, 218-9; their attitude to morality, 219;
capabilities of rising above morals, 221.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GERMANS—GERMANY
Germans, non-Christian qualifications of, x. 181; the
original meaning of "Deutsch," 181.
— their ideal, which led to great hopes alluded to by
Zarathustra, xi. 67.
— as having as yet no to-day, xii. 192; described psycho-
logically and as a people, 196-200; as a fructify-
ing nation, 206 ; their anti-semitism, 207 ; their
classical reputation for the art of commanding
and obeying, 209.
— the Mephistophelian nature of the German observed
with pleasure, xiii. 217 ; the German's soul, 219;
reflect something of the deep pensive earnestness
of their mystics and musicians, 221.
— their evolution (becoming), xiv. 90.
— Things the Germans lack, (Chap, vii. ) xvi. 50-9; the
psychological tact of, 72; German nobility and
the Crusades, 227; their destruction of the
Renaissance, 228-30; to blame, if we never get
rid of Christianity, 230.
— cannot understand music, xvii. 45; home truths for,
123; Wagner an exception among, 129.
. Germany, the narrow specialisation on the part of learned
I men admired in, iii. 39-40.
— the land of " little by little," v. 90.
— the German theatre, vii. 85; German sentimentality,
86; poets, 86 ; culture, 87; music, 88; what is
German according to Goethe, 144; on German
thinkers and thinking, 151; foreignisms, 155-7;
German classical writers, 258.
— the German way, viii. 70.
— the problem—what is German among the acquisitions
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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of philosophical thought for which we have to
thank German intellect 1 x. 305-11.
Germany, her learned men who possess wit, xiii. 220; that
famous childlike character which divines, 221 ; ,
peasant blood, the best blood in Germany, 222;
the intergrowth of German and Slav races re-
quired, 223; other requirements for her to be-
come master of the world, 224.
— her poverty in great souls, xv. 237.
— German intellect, xvi. 4 ; again, 51 ; as becoming ever
more and more the flat-land of Europe, 53;
her educational system, 55-9; the Emperor
Frederick's attitude towards Rome and Islam,
227.
— German cookery in general, xvii. 30; Nietzsche
speaks a few home truths for Germans, 123;
her attempt to make his (Nietzsche's) great fate
give birth merely to a mouse, 126; represented
by Schleiermachers, 126; German intellect as
Nietzsche's foul air, 127; German, as the inter-
national epithet denoting depravity, 127; her
Emperor and the liberation of slaves, 127;
Nietzsche's ambition to be considered a despiser
of, 128; the reception given in, to Nietzsche's
books, 130.
Gervinus. his interpretation of Shakespeare, i. 171; alluded
to, 161.
— as literary historian, iii. 60.
— his criticisms of Goethe and Schiller, iv. 33; his
warmth for Lessing, 34; and Beethoven's ninth
symphony, 39.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GESNER—GOD
Gesner quoted, viii. 140.
Gesture and speech, vi. 193-5.
Gethsemane, vii. 26.
Geulincx, the despectus sui of, xiii. 176.
Gibbon (Edward) quoted on time and history, v. 90.
Gifts, the value of, wherein the noblest are mistaken, ix. 320.
Giving and bestowing—the donor's modesty, ix. 330.
Giving and taking, on, vii. 159.
Gloominess, concerning the history of modern, xiv. 56;
in the last centuries—as following in the wake
of enlightenment, 73.
Gluck, his dispute with Piccini alluded to, vii. 272.
Goals, on fixing nothing in excess of attainment, ix. 388.
— The thousand and one Goals (Zarathustra's discourse),
xi. 65-8; Zarathustra and his shadow—on men
without a goal, 332-6.
— if the world had had a goal it would have been reached,
xvi. 243; are being annihilated, 259; thenecessity
for new, 260; mankind's goal must be above it-
self, 269.
Gobineau, a jocular saying of (note), vi. 229.
God, the hypothesis of a, vi. 43; the Christiajmentofthe
ing himself with, 133-4; the Chris| Qft 30; tne
tion of, 136; the conception of^h t0 existence
God, 222- nation that be-
— the evolution of the idea of, vii. 115-}0d just as ur.
of regarding God as a personalit 1. ^ . tne G0d.
— the honesty of, ix. 90; on proving the ecline'and fall of
— former feelings of the worshippers of. lcept 0f I46 - de-
x. 97 ; the shadow of, shown n<eoydecay . . [^ .
151; various shadows of, agair. tributeS. ,S3; jew.
Human, ii. VII, Case of Wagner. IX, Daawn of Day x Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Eviu XIII.
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power,; xv Will to Power
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo. ''
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
be on our guard, x. 151; the parable of the mad-
man seeking the dead, 167; churches, tombs,
and monuments of, 169; the conditions for, 172;
Christian attributes of, too oriental, 178; "God
is dead"—what our cheerfulness signifies, 275.
God, dead, xi. 6; Hove him who chasteneth his Godbeeause
he loveth his God, 11; the God of the backworlds-
man, 32; I would only believe in a God who
knew how to dance, 45; could ye create a God!
Then I pray you be silent about all Gods.
Could
ye conceive a God? 99; the Christian conception
of—evil do I call it, and misanthropic, 100; of
his pity for man hath God died, 105; the serpent
in the mask of the pure ones, 147; the five
words of the nightwatchmen, 221 ; Zarathustra's
heart writhes with laughter, 222; he encounters
the last Pope, and they discuss the old dead
God, 315-20; his encounter with the murderer
of God—the ugliest man—the atheist, 322-6;
equality before, 351; dead—now do we desire
the superman to live, 351.
k» Cross, the paradox of the formula, xii. 65 ; the
Nitssion tor, instances of Luther, St. Augustine,
0I, 1-ame de Guyon, 69; refutations regarding,
books the sacrifice of, the paradoxical mystery of
Gervinus,hisint,ate cruelty, 74; allusions to, 85.
toi 16 through fear of ancestors, xiii. 107 ; the
— as literary hg 0f owing a debt to, 109; personally im-
— his criticism^g himself for the debt of man, m ; man's
warmth iof debt to, becomes his instrument of
symphony 12; the origin of the holy God, 112;
The volumes referred 1 to „„,*„. numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early . QjU}l philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, ; Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Huma,an, ail-loo-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOD
Christian and Greek concepts compared, 114;
the conqueror of God—the superman foretold,
117; the atrocious Christian form of hobnob-
bing with, 189; theological dogmatism about,
202; the agnostic query as God, 202.
God, the name given to all that renders weak, teaches
weakness, and infects with weakness, xiv. 46;
the hypothesis, 94; the idea of, as saviour, 95;
the god as part of the invention of the holy lie,
122; the concept of, what it represents, 123;
psychological falsity of, as imagined according
to man's own petty standard, 199-201; the
greatest immoralist—the good God, 251.
— in the concept " God as Spirit," God as perfection is
denied, xv. 40; the spiritualisation of the idea,
not a sign of progress, 76; the only possible
way of upholding the concept, 122; the cul-
minating moment, 181; the belief in, as immoral,
395; moralised by the modern man, ever more
and more, 408 ; Zarathustra quoted concerning,
409.
— the problem, God—Man, xvi. 2; the attainment of the
concept, 20; Christian conceptions of, 30; the
concept, as the greatest objection to existence
hitherto, 43; the need of, by a nation that be-
lieves in itself, 142; the evil God just as ur-
gently needed as the good God, 143; the God-
head of decadence, 144; the decline and fall of
a God, 145; the Christian concept of, 146 ; de-
nounced—this hybrid creature of decay . . . 147;
reasons for his person and attributes, 153; Jew-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
be on our guard, x. 151; the parable of the mad-
man seeking the dead, 167; churches, tombs,
and monuments of, 169; the conditions for, 172;
Christian attributes of, too oriental, 178; "God
is dead"—what our cheerfulness signifies, 275.
God, dead, xi. 6; Hove him who chasteneth his God because
he loveth his God, 11;the God of the backworlds-
man, 32; 1 would only believe in a God who
knew how to dance, 45; could ye create a God?
Then I pray you be silent about all Gods. Could
ye conceive a God1 99; the Christian conception
of—evil do I call it, and misanthropic, 100; of
his pity for man hath God died, 105; the serpent
in the mask of the pure ones, 147; the five
words of the nightwatchmen, 221 ; Zarathustra's
heart writhes with laughter, 222; he encounters
the last Pope, and they discuss the old dead
God, 315-20; his encounter with the murderer
of God—the ugliest man—the atheist, 322-6;
equality before, 351; dead—now do we desire
. the superman to live, 351.
Efc Cross, the paradox of the formula, xii. 65 ; the
Niession tor, instances of Luther, St. Augustine,
of, ii'ame de Guyon, 69; refutations regarding,
books the sacrifice of, the paradoxical mystery of
Gervinus, his intiate cruelty, 74; allusions to, 85.
to, 16i through fear of ancestors, xiii. 107 ; the
— as literary hg of owing a debt to, 109; personally im-
— his criticismng himself for the debt of man, i1 1 ; man's
warmth tof debt to, becomes his instrument of
symphony^ 12; the origin of the holy God, 112;
The volumes referred ( to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early > Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, \ Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Humaum, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOD
Christian and Greek concepts compared, 114;
the conqueror of God—the superman foretold,
117; the atrocious Christian form of hobnob-
bing with, 189; theological dogmatism about,
202; the agnostic query as God, 202.
God, the name given to all that renders weak, teaches
weakness, and infects with weakness, xiv. 46;
the hypothesis, 94; the idea of, as saviour, 95;
the god as part of the invention of the holy lie,
122; the concept of, what it represents, 123;
psychological falsity of, as imagined according
to man's own petty standard, 199-201; the
greatest immoralist—the good God, 251.
— in the concept " God as Spirit," God as perfection is
denied, xv. 40; the spiritualisation of the idea,
not a sign of progress, 76; the only possible
way of upholding the concept, 122; the cul-
minating moment, 181; the belief in, as immoral,
395; moralised by the modern man, ever more
and more, 408 ; Zarathustra quoted concerning,
409.
— the problem, God—Man, xvi. 2; the attainment of the
concept, 20; Christian conceptions of, 30; the
concept, as the greatest objection to existence
hitherto, 43; the need of, by a nation that be-
lieves in itself, 142; the evil God just as ur-
gently needed as the good God, 143; the God-
head of decadence, 144; the decline and fall of
a God, 145; the Christian concept of, 146 ; de-
nounced—this hybrid creature of decay . . . 147;
reasons for his person and attributes, 153; Jew-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
ish priestly ideas regarding the will of, xvi. 158; the
kingdom of God, 159; the Christian needs God
was created to suit, 168; the Christian God as
God denied, 196; his infernal panic over science,
197; the Bible story of the creation of the
world, 198; why man was drowned by, 199;
the pagan conception of, 214.
God, the concept of, not even real, xvii. 52; invented as
the opposite of the concept life—all deadly
hostility to life was bound together in one hor-
rible unit in Him, 142.
Gods, the creation of, by the Greeks through direct
necessity, i. 35; their justification of the life
of man, 35.
— the God as part of the invention of the holy lie,y\\. 122.
Goethe, his efforts to bring about an alliance between
German and Greek culture, i. 153 et seq. ; Faust
quoted, 14, 71, 79, 80, 83, 104, 140; his Pro-
metheus quoted, 76; his Conversations with
Eckermann quoted, 137; again quoted, 170.
— to dramatic musicians, ii. 46; and German historical
culture, 67 ; and purification through thephysis,
75; alluded to, 83.
— his epilogue to The Bell quoted, iii. 11; the stand-
ard of culture established by, 60; effects of Ger-
man culture on, 105; his friendship with Schil-
ler, 107; his epilogue to The Bell referred to,
107; the age of, and the demand for culture,
114; relates an opinion regarding Schiller's Rob-
bers, 138; his recantation of Wolfs theories re-
garding Homer quoted, 149; on Homer, 156.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI. Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOETHE
Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann quoted; the culture
of thrt German nation, iv. 9-10; the criticism of
Gervinus referred to, 33; on the exceptional
man, ,^5; on Lessing, 36; on his first reading
the systeme de la nature, 58; and Wagner: their
exceptional characters compared, 116; poetry
L'i the case of Goethe, 149; and Wagner again,
i. 56 ; the rehearsals of Jphigenia, 169; with Leo-
pardi—astraggler of the Italian philologist poets,
195; alluded to, 78, 81, 106, 108.
— on instruction that does not quicken, v. 3; quoted,
16; before the monument of Steinbach, 25; on
Shakespeare, 43; his demand for science, 64;
his study of Newton alluded to, 65; the ques-
tion as to his having outlived himself, 73; on
the reception given to Hartmann's mock gos-
pel, 81; his style, and that of Schopenhauer,
115; quoted, 117; his strength to hold out
against so-called German culture, 120; and cul-
ture-philistines, 121; humanity, and the men
of, 139; Goethe's man depicted, 140; Wilhelm
Meister and Faust quoted, 142; quoted, 147;
again, 154; his influence, 163; Schopenhauer's
rare happiness at seeing him, 182; the demand
for lectures on, 199.
— quoted, vi. 116; again, 118; his religious unconcern,
128; his influence on modern poetry, 203; his
estimate of Shakespeare, 203; on the highest
power of man, 245; quoted, 394; again, 399;
alluded to, 165, 250.
— on Sterne, vii. 60; stands above the Germans, 86;
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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IN DEX—NIETZSCHE
his errors: a criticism, vii. 123 ; tv his nobleness,
143; on what is German, 144; hiKs Conversations
with Eckermann, the best Germain book in exist-
ence, 250 ; not merely a great mi can, but a culture,
259; on Bach's music, 267; ocVkcasional dry-as-
dust elements of, 303; alluded to\ 56, 91, i39,
178, 249, 254. \
Goethe, his fate in old-maidish Germany, viii. aj; what he
would have thought of Wagner, 9; rliis feelings
in regard to Christianity recalled, 50 A the over-
flow of life as creative in, 67; quotedj, 86; on
Byron, 88; his nobility instanced, 93; quoted,
98; the appearance of, as a great event in phil-
ology, 120; on the emulation of the ancients,
133; as the poet-scholar, 139; the paganism
in Winckelmann glorified by, 145; referred to
again, 149; his knowledge instanced, 171; his
knowledge of antiquity, 179; as a German poet-
philologist, 181; alluded to, 71, 92.
— and culture in Germany, ix. 188; German philosophy
and, 199; alluded to, 338, 347.
— his loquacity, x. 130; the Germans and Faust, 192;
his paganism with a good conscience, 305.
— his prose style, xii. 41; his meeting with Napoleon,
149; his critical estimate of the Germans, 198;
on English mechanical stultification, 210; as a
master of new modes of speech, 218, 219;
quoted, 241; Faust quoted, 255.
— his thirty-six tragic situations—the ascetic priest knows
more, xiii. 184-5; his conception of Mephisto-
pheles, 217; alluded to, 123, 221, 224.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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GOETHE—GOOD
s
Goethe, bis mode of thinking not far removed from that of
Hegei, xiv. 80; his attempt to overcome the
eightetnth century, 87; his feeling about the
Cross. 147; alluded to, 96, 318.
— his worka, xv. 76; Germany's hostility to, recalled,
203; his joy in the things of this world, 263;
his Greeks, 269 ; the element of, found in Schiitz
and Mendelssohn—Rahel and Heine, 271;
quoted, 277; instanced, 281 ; characteristic of
the strong German type, 318; with Napoleon,
conquered the eighteenth century, 397; in-
stanced, 417; again, beside Dionysus, 419.
— and the French Revolution, xvi. 54; his attempted
ascent to the naturalness of the Renaissance,
109; the last German respected by Nietzsche,
i1 1; his conception of the Hellenic, 118; as
Zarathustra's predecessor, 273; alluded to, 55,
73-
— could not have breathed Zarathustra's atmosphere,
xvii. 106; alluded to, 119.
Gogol, instanced, viii. 76.
— alluded to, xii. 245.
Gold, the inordinate desire for, as a means to power, ix.
209; as unsatisfying in the end, 342.
— as the image of the highest virtue, xi. 86.
Goldmark, and Wagner, viii. 46.
Goncourt, the brothers, alluded to, viii. 20.
— their love of ugliness, xv. 264.
— asAjaxes, fighting with Homer, xvi. 60; alluded to, 65.
Good, the, at one time new, vii. 47-8; on willing the
good and being capable of the beautiful, 160.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zaraihustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Good, the first degree of, ix. 37; the neces/his n'a1j deskxarko
of everything, 352. * Cm
— the birth of logical, x. 156. /*n ^
— what is good? the little girl's answeF1' , \ ii 52.
— its evolution, which elects to appeal**. . 1011' to a limited
number of ears, xiii. 24; as the. , 9 1evengeful
man has thought it out, 44; a belief! of revenge
and hatred " that the strong has the oft' *ti>n of being
weak, and the bird of prey of being a I1S 'lamb' 46.
— defined as strength, xvi. 128; whom . ""and what
people call the good, 259. °
— the harm of, xvii. 136; the object of the'H! ™«i«n,
to favour all that ought to be wiped out, 143.
Good, the, and the just, xi. 20; Zarathustra finds them
the most poisonous flies, 227; the harm of the
good is the harmfullest harm, 259; Zarathustra
prays for the breaking up of the good and the
just, 260.
— the good and the bad as types of decadence, xiv. 35;
a criticism of the good man, 282-90.
— whom and what people call the good, xvi. 259.
— the harm done by, xvii. 136; would call superman
the devil, 137.
