over the various peoples and their interests, of training for a universal politics (Erziehung zu einer allmenschlichen Politik).[1] The "rule of the earth" (Erd-Herrschaft, or Regierung der Erde) is a phrase continually on his lips. He has in mind transcending not only national, but racial lines and animosities.[2] "There is approaching the great task and problem: how shall the earth as a whole be administered, and for what shall 'man' as a whole, and no longer a people, a race, be reared and trained?"[3] The "world-economy" which he has in mind is one in which the backward savage races of Asia and Africa would be utilized and no longer allowed to live merely for themselves.[4] , In short, an organic relation of all mankind is contemplated—and a law co-extensive with mankind would seem to be a natural consequence. Perhaps the
- ↑ Will to Power, §§ 927, 1057.
- ↑ Cf. Joyful Science, § 377. He is severe here against the race-hatred closely connected with German nationalism and with the racial self-admiration which deports itself as a sign of German loyal sentiment today—something, he says, false twice over and unseemly in a people with the "historical sense." While deriding sentimental humanitarianism (and in effect what passes nowadays as "cosmopolitanism"), he adds, "We are a long way from being German enough, in the current use of the term 'German,' to speak in favor of nationalism and racial hatred, to be able to take pleasure in the national heart-itch (Herzenskrätze) and blood-poisoning, in virtue of which in Europe now peoples mark themselves off, barricade themselves against one another as with quarantinestations." In Werke, XIII, 14, § 28, he speaks of Schopenhauer as one of the best-educated Germans, that is to say, a European. A good German—I must be pardoned, if I ten times repeat it—is a German no more." Cf. also Werke, XIII, 349, § 866; 356, §§ 878-9. Nietzsche did not live long enough to pour his satire on Houston Stewart Chamberlain. He holds that pure races no longer exist. "How much mendacity and swamp-land are necessary to raise race-questions in today's mishmash Europe! (supposing, that is, that one does not come from Borneo or Horneo)." "Maxim—to have nothing to do with a man who takes part in the mendacious race-swindle" (Werke, XIII, 356, §§ 878-9). Indeed, he thought that racial mixtures, if of a certain kind, might have good results. For Germans, a Bedientenseele people, there had come an improvement through the admixture of Slav blood—Bismarck being an instance; and a general growing in together of German and Slavic stocks was desirable (ibid., XIII, 347, § 859; 352, § 872; cf. the strong language, 346, § 858). Particularly did he oppose anti-Semitic feeling: he thought that just for the future ruling class, Jews had qualities that were indispensable, having in mind especially their understanding for finance (ibid., XIII, 352, § 872; 356-7; cf. Beyond Good and Evil, § 251). Even "nation," though in a given case it may be more res facta than res nata, seemed to him a finer conception than race (Werke, XII, 207, § 441).
- ↑ Will to Power, § 957.
- ↑ Werke, XI, 376-7, § 572.
