Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzscheout the world. Darwin in his remarks relative to the degenerationof cultivated types of animals through the from the previous four paragraphs. Nietzsche is still deal-We must be careful to separate this paragraph, in sense,action of promiscuous breeding, brings Gobineau support ing with Pessimism here; but it is the pessimism of thefrom the realm of biology.hero—the man most susceptible of all to desperate viewsof life, owing to the obstacles that are arrayed againstThe last two verses of par. 12 were discussed in the Notes him in a world where men of his kind are very rare and areon Chapters XXXVI. and LIII.continually being sacrificed. It was to save this man thatNietzsche wrote. Heroism foiled, thwarted, and wrecked,Par. 13hoping and fighting until the last, is at length overtakenby despair, and renounces all struggle for sleep. This isThis, like the first part of “The Soothsayer”, is obviously not the natural or constitutional pessimism which proceedsfrom an unhealthy body—the dyspeptic’s lack ofa reference to the Schopenhauerian Pessimism.appetite; it is rather the desperation of the netted lionPars. 14, 15, 16, 17that ultimately stops all movement, because the more itmoves the more involved it becomes.These are supplementary to the discourse “Backworld’smen”.Par. 20Par. 18“All that increases power is good, all that springs fromweakness is bad. The weak and ill-constituted shall perish:first principle of our charity. And one shall also help319