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Nietzsche's philosophy would convert the world into 

 a ferocious conflict between beasts, each brute tram- 

 pling ruthlessly on everything in his way. In his book 

 entitled " Joyful Wisdom/' Nietzsche ascribes to Na- 

 poleon the very same dream of power — Europe under 

 one sovereign and that sovereign the master of the 

 world — that lured the Kaiser into a sea of blood from 

 which he emerged an exile seeking security under a 

 foreign flag. Nietzsche names Darwin as one of the 

 three great men of his century, but tries to deprive 

 him of credit ( ?) for the doctrine that bears his name 

 by saying that Hegel made an earlier announcement of 

 it. Nietzsche died hopelessly insane, but his philos- 

 ophy has wrought the moral ruin of a multitude, if it is 

 not actually responsible for bringing upon the world its 

 greatest war. 



His philosophy, if it is worthy the name of philos- 

 ophy, is the ripened fruit of Darwinism — and a tree is 

 known by its fruit. 



In 1900 — over twenty years ago — while an Interna- 

 tional Peace Congress was in session in Paris the fol- 

 lowing editorial appeared in UUnivers: 



" The spirit of peace has fled the earth because evo- 

 lution has taken possession of it. The plea for peace 

 in past years has been inspired by faith in the divine 

 nature and the divine origin of man; men were then 

 looked upon as children of one Father and war, there- 

 fore, was fratricide. But now that men are looked 

 upon as children of apes, what matters it whether they 

 are slaughtered or not ? ** 



I have given you above the words of a French writer 



