130 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



admirers or detesters of Nietzsche, would easily and 

 willingly recognize that he knew little and cared less 

 about the systems of natural history. They would go 

 further and say that that fact had no essential relation 

 to his antipathies against systems of philosophy. And 

 this brings us back to the main point the point to 

 which, according to my view, neither men of science nor 

 men of philosophy have given sufficient attention, 

 namely, that the system, the orderliness which every 

 educated person now knows to be so greatly character- 

 istic of living nature, must enter fundamentally into 

 any philosophy of man and the animate world generally 

 in order that that philosophy may be even approxi- 

 mately true and in any way adequate. 



The following quotation from "Beyond Good and 

 Evil" will open the way to a perception of the kindred 

 between Nietzscheism and modern theoretical biology. 

 He says: 



"Let me be pardoned as an old philologist who can 

 not desist from the mischief of putting his finger on 

 bad modes of interpretation, but 'Nature's conformity 

 to law,' of which you physicists talk so proudly as 

 though why it exists only owing to your interpreta- 

 tion and bad 'philology.' It is no matter of fact, no 

 'text,' but rather just a naively humanitarian adjust- 

 ment and perversion of meaning, with which you make 

 abundant concessions to the democratic instincts of the 

 modern soul." 



