class by their aims and manner of life, they must give direction to wealth—it is absolutely necessary, he declares, that the highest intelligence give direction to it. Money will be safest under their control—otherwise it will be liable to go (as so often happens now) for extreme one-sided tendencies.[1]
These men, too, will know, as real aristocracies always know, the significance of marriage.[2] Love will be looked at from a new angle (new, that is, to the modern world)—it will be controlled by ideal considerations.[3] Marriage will not be from passion or emotion simply. Nor will mere considerations of mutual fitness and compatibility be the controlling thing. The main aim of marriage for men like these will be the continuation of their type, and propagation will be a matter of the utmost sacredness.[4] Zarathustra speaks in this spirit in a passage already summarized.[5] e He speaks also of the helpful influence which physicians may exert.[6] Women may help directly—the deepest instincts of motherhood may be brought into line with the aim of producing a higher race.[7] It is, of course, a different aim from the ordinary one of "founding a family" which vulgar and self-centered people may wish to do—the aristocracy to be will exist for universal ends, and, instead of being a closed line or set of lines, it will take to itself new elements of promise wherever they appear, and will draw on all the varied talents that are needed for the administration of the earth.[8] As little is it a national aristocracy which Nietzsche has in mind. His thought is European[9] (or wider) and the aristocracy will be international—the principle of the possibility of a United Europe; he speaks of possible "international marital unions" as fortresses under whose protection the training of a race of future lords of the
- ↑ Werke, XII, 204, §§ 434-5.
- ↑ Cf. Ibid., XI, 350, § 505.
- ↑ Ibid., XIV, 261, § 3. Cf. XII, 196, § 418 (reflections on conditions that were favorable to the many free individuals among the Greeks, among them, "marriage not on account of erotic passion").
- ↑ Ibid., XIV, 261, § 3; cf. Will to Power, §§ 732, 804.
- ↑ Zarathustra, I, xx; see p. 311 of this volume.
- ↑ Human, etc., § 243; cf. Werke, XI, 145, § 453.
- ↑ Zarathustra, I, xviii ("Let the beam of a star shine in your love! Let your hope say 'May I bear the superman!").
- ↑ Werke, XIV, 226-7, §§ 457, 459.
- ↑ Ibid., XIII, 358, § 881; cf. XIV, 226, § 466.
