Sunday, March 1, 2026

Mencken's Nietzsche

"[H.L.] Mencken was too commonsensical, too solidly grounded in the reporter's world of things as they are, to readily grasp the essence of so tortured a soul. His Nietzsche is an all-American type, a world-improving, can-do go-getter delighted to have through the fraud of Christianity and gone beyond good and evil: 'He applied the acid of critical analysis to a hundred and one specific ideas, and his general conclusion, to put it briefly, was that no human being had a right, in any way or form, to judge or direct the actions of any other being. Herein we have, in a few words, that gospel of individualism which all our sages preach today.'"

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