ABSTRACT
In spite of his admixture of German blood, Friedrich Nietzsche never forgot his ancestry, and his features remained distinctly Polish. The next educational establishment which Nietzsche entered was a school at Pforta. Here, though the discipline was extremely strict, he began to reveal for the first time his many intellectual talents; and it became obvious to his instructors that an immense creative energy was stirring within him. In Nietzsche’s view—and this is the central point of his book Richard Wagner in Bayreuth—art must go ahead to light the way; for art is a revolutionary force which, once accepted, will alter our whole conception of both education and morals. Nietzsche, whose personal friendship for Wagner had been sincere, felt betrayed and humiliated. Nietzsche lost his reason out of loneliness and despair just at the moment when his name was becoming known all over Europe.
