Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — Doctrines of Nietzsche. [ARTICLE]

Doctrines of Nietzsche.

The two doctrines most often associated with Nietzsche’s name, though they are not essential to his ethics, are those of the superman and the eternal recurrence. -The first is the end and justification of human straggle, and in the earllerbooks is represented as a mythical product of the individual will, while later it is described as a higher species with tite relatiOEThlp to man thatman has’to the ape. The eternal recurrence is the theory, by no means new, that present events but form a part of an infinite cycle and thus will be endlessly repeated in every detail. His theories have been much discussed and have exercised an unlocked for influence, S pecially among men interested primarily in art or in social reform; and many consider them the logical outcome and application of Dbt- \ winism. ,