"NIETZSCHE."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 10

"NIETZSCHE."

! Sir, —In answer to your correspondent ."Roust About," the following from the "Literary, Guide" might interest him. "Nietzsche, the .most interesting' philosophic writer since Schopenhauer, is-almost.unknown in England. Our, philosophers would seem] in a conspiracy to -ignore him—an ostrich-like - attitude which'.is at-once ineffective ' and undignified. They close their eyes to_ fee forces which are shaping the world. This indifference of the university magnates and the philosophic writers to , Nietzsche has been slowly and surely undermined by-/outsid4 influences..' . The general public have been attracted by writers /adopted, Nietzsche's ! views, and''who. have popularised- tie ■philosopher's;;'ideas! /Chief among./these writers is Mr;. Bernard . public, which ;'is.- .beginaing to •.relisi. the 'superman', philosophy, of the'author of 'Major Barbard,'-'! is now 1 ripe,; for the teaching . of '.the master,.himself;-' "Nietzsche is 'the most iconoclastic of philosophers. He is the unmasker of current idealshe is the mocker of existing' moral standards; ho is the breaker 'of the. most. cberised , images. . He contends always 'that, .so 'far -as the elevation- of. the ..human .rice "is 'concerned,, our present standards;', are ineffective, and : even dangerous.-' In his contempt for the doctrine of..'equality, in ..his 1 contention that the 'morality,' of twenty . centuries... is .^utterly. -wrong,, in ; the .stress he . lays . .upon sejf-interest : 'as •thwgudding factor-in the evolution ..both of individuals and' societies,,' Nietzsche may.; be' mistaken, .but he* canhot.;„be ignored. You musts fight, withhim .or, against him, but first you must listen to him'. This opportunity has-how been given to us by Dr. .'Oscar Levy, who ia issuing the complete works of Freidrich Nietzsche in English, ,:This- is thy third . attempt to bring-Nietzsche, to the notice of the English,;readirig;. public. Fourteen ago an-edition.of his writings was projected,.but failed,after the;first few' volumes! -Spasmodic attempts .were ' made later;-, but they.'also met. with the same fate. • Wo sincerely hope. that, the present edition ! will "be more successful. It is, : 'edited, by''a ".scholar of European repiitatioii, -and ;'is being sold at a price #iihih vthe 'reach'-'of everybody'';" If. "Roust' l About",:cares to 'look, me up —he-livesnn the. same place—he can ■ -be furnished with ■ of Nietzsche's 'Works',' -.iiist- published,'.and; the..cost! of each.—Lam, etc., ' EDWARD POWELL Havelock,: Marlborough, , September 12). 1910.