The South-African crisis - pagina 74

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

70

Empire

the British

there

is

CRISIS.

moral error."

a

Quite

on the contrary, this frightful war has drowned the egoism

individualist

And

a sort of national

in

egoism.

according to him, is moral progress. "Whether

this,

be mistaken or not mistaken as

"the English people

"to the causes of the war",

it is all

the same to him.

enough for him that the awakened patriotism marks an advance towards the ideal, and that the English people is penetrated "with belief in the mis-

It

is

And

sion that Clod has entrusted to their country". is

by eliminating

way

in this

it

question of right and

all

of justice that this English clergyman speaks of "work-

accomplishment of the Master's

the

ing for

praj^er:

Our Father, which art in Heaven, Thy Kingdom come!"

To my mind, this is an execrable blasphemy. But what ground for surprise remains? Darwinism intentionally avoids every influence of a

teleological principle, thus stopping in advance the

and object

very end

essential

to

the conception of

Given up to the arbitrariness of individualism,

right.

subordinated to chance,

it

is

and a prey to the caprices of

volatilised

This

grasp.

utility,

school,

a fog that eludes the

into

moreover,

discovers

"struggle for life" the directing principle of

and

ment, that

the

before

weak

the

deduces

thence

It

to

end to the

the

will

brutal

be

the logic

its

the

move-

conclusion

by fate to succuml)

predestined

are

stronger.

then, to escape from

appeals

the

in

of

difficult

for

Nietzsche,

you,

which

stronger to put the quickest possible

futilities

of the

weak

in order to accelerate

the march of humanity towards progress. Between this

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