
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Part II.
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The Englishman, More Gloomy, Sensual, Headstrong and Cruel Than the German, Has All the More Need of Christianity
English Christianity still has a characteristic English taint of spleen and alcoholic excess. It is character heuristic of such an unfillisophical race to hold on firmly to Christianity. They need its discipline for moralising and humanising. The English coarseness and rustic demuioness is still most satisfactorily disguised by Christian pantomime, and by praying and some singing. But even in the humanist Englishman, which offends, his lack of music,. He has neither rhythm nor dance in the movements of his soul and body - indeed, not even the desire for rhythm and dance, for music. Listen to him speaking, look at the most beautiful English women walking
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