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And ye have heard them say, Blessed are the poor 

 in spirit. But I say unto you, Blessed are the great 

 in soul, for they shall enter into Valhalla. 



And ye have heard men say, Blessed are the peace- 

 makers. But I say unto you. Blessed are the war- 

 makers, for they shall be called, if not the children of 

 Jehovah, the children of Odin, who is greater than 

 Jehovah. 



Whatever else we may say of Nietzsche, we 

 must at least admit that he is intellectually honest 

 in carrying out the principle of, struggle to its 

 logical conclusions. As Professor Figgis says: 



Nietzsche deserves the gratitude of all friends of 

 humanity for the service he has done, in showing 

 that the whole sphere of private life cannot in the 

 long run be different from the ideals accepted in public 

 afEairs.^ 



And Prof. Philip van Ness Myers who also 

 recognizes his contribution to a truer social philo- 

 sophy adds: 



It is the inconsistencies and hypocrisies involved 

 in the double standard of national and individual con- 

 duct that is one ground of Nietzsche's bitter attack 

 on the ethics of Christendom. Rightly understood, 

 Nietzsche's work is a reductio ad ahsurdum — a classic 

 satire on the philosophy of force. ^ 



* Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1907, p. 96. 

 » History as Past Ethics, Ginn & Company, 1913, p. 380. 



