ABSTRACT
Nietzsche's Germanised Europe of the future is not German through and through. Or, rather, Europeans will become German through and through only in the sense that their still-multiple European souls will have each taken on something of the colour of German “development”. The French like the Germans are people of the middle – although the former perhaps more secretly than the latter. The major English “philosophers” of Nietzsche's time, the utilitarians, are quintessential “herd animals” preaching “one morality for all”, and hence are fundamentally detrimental to the “higher men” and their task of building on the future made possible by the process of democratisation. The idea of a united Europe found a new lease of life in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
