[Hardy-l] TH and Nietzsche

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Marc -

I find the following snippet re Nietzsche quite intriguing -- it certainly 
offer possibilities for delving deeper.

Best,
Rosemarie
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Letters, v5.50
MAX GATE, | DORCHESTER. | 26: 9: 1914

My dear Cockerell:
         Many thanks for sending Cramb's book, which we have now finished 
reading. He had evidently an inordinate admiration for the German idea of 
power, though he tries to be a good Englishman. What a dreamer he seems to 
have been. His attempts to elevate the vulgar ambition of German Junkers to 
the height of a noble national aspiration shows this: also his blindness to 
Napoleon's true character.
         If facts bore out his theories the book would be a weighty 
discourse. But it seems to me that Nietzsche, Treitske, Cramb, & all of the 
school (if it can be called a school) insanely regard life as a thing 
improvable by force to immaculate gloriousness, when all the time life's 
inseparable conditions allow only clumsy opportunities for amelioration by 
plodding compromises & contrivances.
         By the by it is rather rough on Kant, Schopenhauer, &c., to be 
swept into one net of condemnation with Nietzsche, &c, when those 
philosophers & the latter are as poles asunder; though I see this done by 
Christian writers in the papers. The truth is that in ethics Kant, Schopr 
&c. are nearer to Christianity than they are to Nsche.
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MM's Refs: Cramb's book: John Adam Cramb (1862-1913), historian; author of 
Germany and England (London, 1914).  Nietzsche: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 
(1844-1900), German philosopher; see LY, 160.  Treitske: TH presumably 
means Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-96), German historian.  Kant: Immanuel 
Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher.

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>If you know of something, I would greatly appreciate the help. It would
>assist me in the home schooling of my sixteen-year-old who reads Nietzsche
>and is just beginning Mayor of Casterbridge.
>
>Thank you,
>Marc Jolley