Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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HUMAN,
ALL TOO HUMAN
A BOOK FOR FREE SPIRITS
BY
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER HARVEY
CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
1908
Copyright 1908
By Charles H. Kerr & Company
CONTENTS

Page
PREFACE.
5
OF THE FIRST AND LAST THINGS.
19
HISTORY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.
67
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
136
PREFACE.
1
It is often enough, and always with great surprise,
intimated to me that there is something both ordinary and
unusual in all my writings, from the "Birth of Tragedy" to
the recently published "Prelude to a Philosophy of the
Future": they all contain, I have been told, snares and
nets for short sighted birds, and something that is almost
a constant, subtle, incitement to an overturning of
habitual
opinions
and
of
approved
customs.
What!?
Everything is merely—human—all too human? With this
exclamation my writings are gone through, not without a
certain dread and mistrust of ethic itself and not without
a disposition to ask the exponent of evil things if those
things be not simply misrepresented. My writings have been
termed a school of distrust, still more of disdain: also,
and more happily, of courage, audacity even. And in fact,
I myself do not believe that anybody ever looked into the
world with a distrust as deep as mine, seeming, as I do,
not simply the timely advocate of the devil, but, to
employ theological terms, an enemy and challenger of God;
and whosoever has experienced any of the consequences of
such deep distrust, anything of the chills and the agonies
of isolation to which such an unqualified difference of

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