The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with by way of contradiction. We have seen anarchists with this character, begotten of sick-at-stomach sensations which had been the outcome of keen disappointment in want¬ ing material very difficult to describe and to get hold of. Doctors have seen instances of tendencies to “ blow hot and cold ” amongst sexual perverts. Nietzsche called the Kaiser a “ canting bigot ” and described the Ger¬ mans as “ the shallowest people in Europe ” who had “entirely lost the breadth of vision which enables one to grasp the course and value of culture.” One is constrained to con¬ clude that had he held a more comfortable appointment at Berlin instead of the one he held at Basle University he would have written with a much more conciliatory pen. Nietzsche denounced all religions, and looked upon moral laws as remnants of Christian superstition which “ cherished the virtues of the weak.” He suffered many years from severe illness, as well he might, and ultimately became hopelessly mad, after eleven years of which state he died. “ Life,” he wrote, “ is essentially ‘ amoral ’ ” ; he viewed the world as neither good nor bad,
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