Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake Zarathustrathe ice, and the ice breaks down the foot-bridges and way, “is to mistake the true nature and function of life,railings, whereupon everything is swept away. This state which is Will to Power...Life is essentially appropriation,of affairs, according to Nietzsche, has now been reached. injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression,“Oh, my brethren, is not everything at present in flux? severity, obtrusion of its own forms, incorporation and atHave not all railings and foot-bridges fallen into the water?Who would still hold on to ‘good’ and ‘evil’?” merely a secondary activity, a mere re-activity (see Noteleast, putting it mildest, exploitation.” Adaptation ison Chapter LVII.).Par. 9Pars. 11, 12This is complementary to the first three verses of par. 2.These deal with Nietzsche’s principle of the desirability ofPar. 10rearing a select race. The biological and historical groundsfor his insistence upon this principle are, of course, manifold.Gobineau in his great work, “L’Inegalite des RacesSo far, this is perhaps the most important paragraph. Itis a protest against reading a moral order of things in Humaines”, lays strong emphasis upon the evils whichlife. “Life is something essentially immoral!” Nietzsche arise from promiscuous and inter-social marriages. Hetells us in the introduction to the “Birth of Tragedy”. alone would suffice to carry Nietzsche’s point against allEven to call life “activity,” or to define it further as “the those who are opposed to the other conditions, to thecontinuous adjustment of internal relations to external conditions which would have saved Rome, which haverelations,” as Spencer has it, Nietzsche characterises as a maintained the strength of the Jewish race, and which“democratic idiosyncracy.” He says to define it in this are strictly maintained by every breeder of animals through-318