ABSTRACT
The European War is sometimes closely connected with Friedrich Nietzsche. It is even called “Nietzsche in Action,” or the “Euro-Nietzschean War.” Strange and venturesome as it may seem, in face of the democratic tide sweeping through the world, to throw out an anti-democratic social ideal like this, Nietzsche did so. He was critic, analyst, scholar, and yet if one looks deeply enough and has a scent for the connection of things, one discovers that almost all he writes is in one way or another related to this central thought, this deeper hope. Only “reine Thorheit,” complete lack of any real understanding of Nietzsche, could bring him into any special contributory connection with it. The basis for the common view is, first, that he was a German, and then that he said certain strange things and used certain strange phrases, which the people do not understand and scholars have given them little help in understanding.
