Nietzsche and Christianity - 369

“One of the best discussions of Nietzsche I have ever encountered was contributed to the Catholic World … by Miss Petre. It is to be regretted that these excellent papers, which sought to rescue Nietzsche from the misunderstandings of Christian critics, have not been re-printed in book-form.” - H.L. Mencken from the book: “Putting his argument at the best, here is what it would be: We want strong men; power and strength are the highest qualifications of God or man; life itself is, at core, the will to be mighty and strong. … What is the result of the opposite system in the evolution of mankind? Simply that sickness, foolishness, impotence, are raised to the thrones which should be occupied by health, knowledge, and will. Invalidism, hyper-sensitiveness, dilettantism have become, most often, not the shame but the glory of our race. We blush, not for our weakness, but for our strength, we sample our refinement by the number and the triviality of our pains. We measure our influence by the amount of sympathy we can evoke; we estimate our importance by the quantity of help and service which we need. So that the strong are expended, not even in strengthening the weak, but in ministering to and glorifying their weakness. Behold the fruits of altruism!” “Nietzsche is the advocate of life and strength and self-mastery; the foe of cowardice and self-pity. We shall not have studied him for nothing if we have drawn from his teaching something of his own ‘will to be strong’ … ”
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Author/Artist:Petre, Maude
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