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...personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce...
Before tackling Nietzsche it is almost essential to have a general notion of the man's life and thought in order to understand what he attempted to do. Without such a notion one is sure to get lost in the confusion of styles, aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are composed with such violence and passion. As a broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...
...Suppose I should take a notion to marry - would I be likely to get the same mentioned in your daffy weekly? Maybe you put in only such as should appear in a column where we see "died." No, I don't, and I can't understand. I question whether you fellows do. J. M. RUDY Ada. Ohio If Subscriber Rudy is the descendant of, or is himself, a famed personage, or if he should marry a woman who is the descendant of, or who is herself, a famed person age, TIME will record his marriage, divorce or death...
There is only one thing I can't understand, and that is why you should give up so much valuable space in your paper as you did to the disgusting Chaplin episode...