Once the sin against God was the greatest sin but God died, and these sinners died with him. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment….īehold, I teach you the overman. What have you done to overcome him?Īll beings so far have created something beyond themselves and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. Wells did so without losing faith in positive projects¹, gleaning from Nietzche the sentiments which enforced his own worldview: Wells managed to explore the themes and implications of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas, which exerted a strong influence on Wyndham Lewis and the growing expectations (and numbers) of the popular masses.
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