Excerpt from As I See: Nietsche During all the succeeding periods of history, we can witness in the arena of mankind the bitter life-and-death struggle between the best and strongest champions of those two fundamental ideas and trends of thought. In all these embittered battlings Apollo remained the victor. These two opposing and bitterly fighting trends of thought, rubbed and fussed themselves for thousands of years. On both sides they tried to bring the best, so to show their justification for domination. From the very beginning there was a furious battle, which overthrew the many Gods, but always, in the end, there remained one God on the throne, who was glorified with a pompous celebration. Fundamentally was carried the fuss and fight for the very beginning thought. Down through the ages of history we see how the battle-field broadened, also how the struggle intensified. Here the leaders of both sides had to calculate, so as to change their places on the commanding bridge. With such atrocious actions, these leaders established even a new religion, namely, Christianity, and they had the nerve to proclaim that this religion is the real hereditary offspring of a prophet, Jesus Christ. On the other hand, everything that was wicked in the system remained. Tasks became difficult; harmony never could be properly applied; and therefore a bitter fight started between individuals and nations. The one side strove to maintain the permanency of their old heavenly bliss, and the other fought for their ends. At the same time the furious fight was started for the new religion, but fundamentally for the ideas of Apollo and Dionysos! On this well calculated foundation they organized, and with this power they crushed small nations and big empires, annihilating whole populations, and again building anew to destroy in turn. In all this strife and tribulation the Apollo trend of thought remained undisputed victor. This retrospect illuminates the unending bitter struggles even of our own times. The recognized spokesmen of the powers that be - i. E., the poets, the philosophers, the scientists gathered everlastingly, and gather even today a beautifully composed data, with which they support the necessity of idols. In spite of such an organized power, there devel oped the Dionysian trend of thought. Doubtless there is one and the same cause at the bottom of it all. The one system wanted to establish and maintain in power the well-being of the material world, the otheraimed to establish and maintain in power life itself. Neither side won out definitely and the struggle goes on unceasingly, now with the sword, and now again, as opportunity arises, with the pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.