DISRAELI'S PROPHETIC VISION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2320, 30 November 1914, Page 6

DISRAELI'S PROPHETIC VISION

; GERMANY'S CHALLENGE ■•; PREWCTED; ; ; \ '■("Times" and Brdnoy "Sxui" Services.) i;?'-;'; : .';' : ' London, November 27. i'-"Murray's- , have.^published l "the third ■ rplume of Disraeli's life; and quote remarkable prophesies by Disraeli, ivho told Cobden, in. 1848, that-it would be madness to expect univorsal peace because ofthe. factr that America - and ■ England were rich , andcontented. Wars were not made by such Powers, but by : n.'race or prince ( ivho, agitates for position/- ' : .'"■■■'■ ' .-■■-, .- .;■■ Disraeli showed- rare presciences Tvllen the Sphleswig dispute,was beginning, in 1848. , He brushed aside .tlio.ostensible pretexts for Prussia's action, and pointed out that, it'aeani. an, eyeritual challenge to .England'upon the sea'. He further predicted- thatMflio , 'intellectual vinarch or atheism might lead to a rc.rival of . national -idolatries,: modified mythically; , but dressed , up according to. the spirit of the' age. This finds;fulfilment, in Nietzsche's.ideals-for the deyvelopment of Germany. . ' • r ; .'- ■ ' The philosophy of Friedrich' Wilhelin :Nietzsohe, who' was born.in' , 1844, and insane in : 1888, transposes the : valuations,'', deposes tlie .''Chris-. ,'-tian : virtues," and-.incites the .."over- , '■man" ruthlessly to .trample under foot jthe servile herd; of the weak, 'degener'iite, and: poor,in spirit. \ ■ His writings afre considered to have had a powerful Snfluenco on the teachers of modern Ger.'many such as Ti'eitsche, the historian,: Lvon'Bernhardythe military wrikr, and 'other influential writers in .Germany. ,