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tion; that is only for the individual. If we are ever to have a re- 
valuation of old values, it will be when the great thinker creates 
them, when he makes himself the law-giver of the life-values of man- 
kind. This new law will be laid in the contrast of the individual with 
the masses. It will be superior to the conventional, will be beyond 
good and evil. It confers on the strong individual the right and duty 
of making his will supreme. For him nothing shall be true which 
does not further him in his self-aggrandisement. He can do any- 
thing that this self-realization demands. Only this unerring, joyous 
assertion of life is able to bring about a higher and more fortunate 
race. The superior manhood is not felt by Nietzsche as the ideal of 
genial personality in aristocratic contrast with the masses weighted 
down as they are by the entire load of tradition, but in him it is 
changed into a picture of a higher type of the human species. This 
charming, poetically beautiful presentation of the subject dissolves 
into a nebulous vapor of the different cultural theories since Rous- 
seau. But just because in this contradictory play of colors all con- 
temporary motives found their brilliant expression, because the un- 
solved contradictions, especially between the values of the intellectual 
culture and the passionate striving for development of power made 
up the fundamental tone of this prophetic poetry, he has been able 
to appear with his program of the revaluation of all values as the 
thinker of his day. Not the creator nor lawgiver of values is to be 
the philosopher, but the seeker and originator of values. It is not 
a matter of power values of the individual, but of the culture values 
determining the historic development and foundation on a high in- 
tellectual plane. Observing this feature and this need of the time 
the recent philosophy of Germany has begun to appreciate once more 
the real significance of idealism. Already in the conception of Kant 
the agnostic theory of recognition (knowable and unknowable) had 
been relegated to the background. In the same sense the great ideal- 
istic systems of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel have found a new dig- 
nity. The outer wonders of the dialectic construction have been cash 
off and the real matter appears all the more powerful. This new 
idealism, which appears in the most varied literary products of the 
last century, is still active. It now appears rather as a return to 
Fichte, now rather as a return to Schelling, and now as a return to 
Hegel. 
These ideas spread like wildfire. Soon the whole country was full 
of a literature written in the spirit and for the purpose of making 
propaganda for Nietzscheanism. When they were denied the use of 
the regular stage and the regular periodicals, his adherents built thea- 
