It is evident that the communistic and socialistic forms of government at present in fashion in the world oppose such a consummation as often as they facilitate it. Civilization, as we know it, makes more paupers than millionaires, and more cripples than Sandows. Its most conspicuous products, the church and the king, stand unalterably opposed to all progress. Like the frog of the fable, which essayed to climb out of a well, it slips back quite as often as it goes ahead.
And for these reasons Nietzsche was an anarchist—in the true meaning of that much-bespattered word—just as Herbert Spencer and Arthur Schopenhauer were anarchists before him.
[1] "Also sprach Zarathustra" I.
[2] "The word mos, from signifying what is customary, has come to signify what is right." Sir Wm. Markby: "Elements of Law Considered with Reference to General Principles of Jurisprudence:" pp. 118, 5th ed., London, 1896.
[3] In his masterly treatise, "Christian Origins," tr. by David A. Huebsch: New York, 1906.
[4] "Menschliches allzu Menschliches" III.
[5] "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" § 259.
[6] "Zur Genealogie der Moral" II, § 11.
[7] "Morgenröte," § 112.