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1900), who stands in a certain historical connection 

 with Schopenhauer. From him he adopted the habit 

 of unmeasured denunciation of the views and persons 

 which he opposes, and a fundamental dislike for all 

 that is traditional, conventional, and generally accepted. 

 But whereas the line of Schopenhauer's thought found 

 its consummation and end in his own teaching, beyond 

 which no important step could be taken without 

 abandoning the master's central position, the writings 

 of Nietzsche, through their very absence of consistent 

 reasoning and logical conclusiveness, have acted greatly 

 as stimulants, and certainly have tended to reveal and 

 make plain to ordinary readers the unsatisfactory and 

 lifeless condition of the current philosophy of the day. 

 Moreover Nietzsche has succeeded more than any other 

 contemporary thinker in coining for his ideas watch- 

 words and incisive expressions which have become 



attempted. That he had arrived to be fully appreciated as a charac- 

 at this, the sine qua non of all teristic sign of the times. From 

 useful speculation, can hardly be being extolled mainly by ardent 

 maintained even by his greatest young minds, whom he not 

 admirers, but he was in search of infrequently unsettled, and de- 

 it. He belongs to that line of nouueed by mature thinkers, he 

 thinkers during the nineteenth has risen to the position of being 

 century, beginning with Schopen- considered by some as worthy to 

 hauer and represented, in the be placed in the company of the 

 middle of the century, by Feuer- small number of great ori^ 



bach in Germany, by Comte in thinkers of modern times from 

 France, and by Mill and Spencer which others, such as Lotze, 

 in England, who had completely Schleiermacher, and Spencer, have 

 broken with that body of traditional ' been excluded: thus, e.g., by E. 

 Christian thought which lay in von Aster in the important collec- 

 the background of the great ideal- tion of essays entitled ' Grosse 

 istic systems, and contains still, in Denker ' (vol. ii. ). This con- 

 its core, the 'nasal conceptions of tains an excellent characteristic of 

 the transcendental and spiritualistic Nietzsche's thought, by Prof. A. 

 schools, wherever they are to be Pfander, dwelling mainly upon the 

 found. In this quest for a new successive stages in his mental 

 faith and a firm but novel founda- j development, 

 tion Nietzsche's writings deserve ! 



