This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...opinions, to oppose an ideal type to an ideal type. Most of the time they achieve that by force of arms, by breaking down the frontiers and by violating piety; but they did it also through new religions and new moralities. The same wickedness is in the soul of all the masters and of all the preachers of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...opinions, to oppose an ideal type to an ideal type. Most of the time they achieve that by force of arms, by breaking down the frontiers and by violating piety; but they did it also through new religions and new moralities. The same wickedness is in the soul of all the masters and of all the preachers of the new, that same wickedness that discredits a conqueror. Nevertheless, what is new is, no matter how you look at it, evil, for it is that which conquers and aims at pulling down the old landmarks and the ancient pieties. Only the ancient can be.go63. The good men of all periods were those that searched deeply into the old ideas to make them bear fruit; they were tillers of the mind. But there is no soil that does not become exhausted and there must always come back to it the point of the plough of evil. There exists nowadays an absolutely erroneous doctrine of morality, a doctrine that is especially welcome in England. According to its tenets the judgments good and evil are the accumulation of past experiences concerning what is opportune and inopportune; and, according to them, what is called good is what preserves the species, and what is called evil is what threatens it. But, to say the truth, the bad instincts are opportune; they are the keepers of the species and its renovators to the same extent as the good ones. It is only their function that differs.' For all these irrefutable reasons it becomes necessary to reinstate man's only true virtue, the will to power, anjntegral egotism, a radical, uncompromising, undisguised, and unadulterated egotism, an open and daring egotism. We must shed morality as we would some cumbersome and choking garment or exude it as we would a deadly virus. This morality never has but one aim, one end, one...
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Francis C. Sumner] Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light rubbing to edges. Bookplate of Sumner on verso. Owner's name on front end page. Francis Cecil Sumner was the first African American to receive a PhD in psychology in the United States and has been acknowledged as the 'father of black American psychologists. ' His career featured pioneering work concerning equality and racial justice in education, and he furthered the development of future generations of black psychologists.
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Very Good. First edition. 306 pp. Translated, with a foreword by George Raffalovich. In dark blue publishers' cloth. Very good with light wear to the boards, a one inch tear to the spine, lacking a dustwrapper.
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