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THE CULT OF THE SUPERMAN,
GREAT MEN WHO DWINDLE AT
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[BY DEAN INGE]
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famous we say, a" dictator with force be fierce competition between rail and Captain L. M. JosDON, E.N.34 Carrying Goods are to be left in the Godown? OUTWARD..
Oswald Spengler, the author of The Decline of the West," has giver his opinion that the twentieth century will not sie another Goethe, but will probably
seo Brother Cæsar.
This is a bold prophesy, for it takes more than opportunity to produce a Cuisar. I am writing with a bust of the great dictator before me....It was not for nothing that this Roman aristocrat, who lived two thousand years ago, left his name to be the title of all emperors for all time. Julius Caesar will remain secure on the pedestal from which Mr. Wells and others have tried to dislodge him. He was a supremely great man, a Napoleon without the Corsican's megalomacia..
But the growing cult of Caesar and Cresarism is no accident. All over the world the praises of Liberty, the goddess of 1780, sound stale
cld-fashioned. The Americans still burn incense before Democracy, and are willing to
and
shout for the space of two hours," or much longer, that she is great"; but Democracy" for
them 1.5 charged with emotional values which have nothing to do
with the meaning of the word, the Americans are blatantly prosperous, and nations in that condition for get their god and adore their insti-
tutions
Not Wisdom, but Numbers. In Europe we have no such temp tation. The British Constitution, the contemplation of which "en-
hind him than an impotent Partia ment.
The dictator rises to power as
road transport, and put in its place a scheme of co-operation be tween the two services are likely a champion against anarchy and to take place, writes an Evening revolution. The first example in Standard Special Correspondent, our time of this form of despotian as a result of discussions which
His Majesty Malls, will be despatched in this fort on sury, D NOUS taking Capables and Tea for Italy DAY, 18131D AUGUST, 1927, at Noor,
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universal suffrage puts the rest of observer of. Continental politics backed by outline schemes Prep Keemun (Blue Funnel), due Sept. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lapi,
Khyber (P. Q.), due August 4th. Lycaon (Blue Fannel), due Sept.
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'90th. Motor transport leaders now" be- This, however, is very different lieve that the industry can beat from the romantic admiration of develop along lines of friendship the superman-the ruthless, iron to the railways rather than enmity, willed saviour of society-which while the railway companies are was popularised by Carlyle, and likely to welcome any sound scheme
as the present | preached by Nietzsche. Carlyle, as of co-operation, Mr. Barrell has said, loathed the competition hits them severely.
It is realised aloo that any in destiny which compelled him to preach the gospel of silence increase of freight charges forced on thirty-six octavo volumes, and to the railways as a result of motor trounce cant with words instead of transport competition would have blows. The scholar in his library a serious effect on the whole trade
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seems to have belonged to the same type se Mussolini. The latter, however, is the de facto ruler of a highly civilised country; he is rul- ing it, by common consent, better ties in London informed me that
Leading motor transport authori than it has ever be governed be they were anxious to bring to an fare; and he is supported by and competitive tactics against the railways, and were hopeful, as a genuine idealism which claims to result of conversations which have have discovered a new and better been arranged, that when the con- method of politics tham has hitherto existed. Mussolini has studied Sress opened it would be possible acceptable Machiavelli, and has stated, his to put forward an agreement with the cynical Rear scheme of closer co-operation.
Weight will be added to the dia politik of "The Prince" some crudity. "Men never work casions of this important matter for good except under compulsion by the fact that the personnel at Democracy is felly, as is proved the conference will be wider than by the fact that it is always dis- ever before, and will include re carded at once when the country put entatives not only of the trade, D'Artagnan (M.M.), due Septem-Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby
of many official bodies. is in danger."
Meanwhile, before the congress Delhi (Swediah East Asiatic), due Continent and One-Man Rule. Lopens leaders of the motor trans-
August 19th... But he really relies, not only as port industry in this country are Devanhu (P. & O.), due August 4th. the fear of Communism, but on making efforts to arrive at a com Diomed (Blue Funnal), due October the patriotisin of an ambitious mon basis of anderstanding with People, who, being the countrymen railway companies. It is consider Empress of Canada, (C.P.R.), due
August 1st, 10 am. of Julius Caesar and Machiavelled that, particularly as regards are ready to bring all maxims and cross-country services, rail and Empress of Russia (C.P.R.), due principles to the touchatone of road transport might co-operate to August 8th practical necessity and expedimey. mutual advantage, and that co-Burulochus (Blue Funnel), due Fascism is the most interesting operation would bring a ropid de- September 11th. political experiment of our time, velopment in such services." now that Bolshevism may be said to have demonstrated its own im- hopeful that preliminary negotia tranced our grandfathara, is dead; possibility. Already in other countions will prove successful, and and as for. Democracy, with its tries, and especially in Germany, that it will be possible to put for
one man (and woman) one vote,
history of former attempts at ward a definite scheme of collabera. we are inclined to say with the Cæsarism is being eagerly studied, tion. It is probable that railway Frenchman Quinet, O, the curious and the fortunes of the present ex-leaders will be asked to address the fetish I have seun it too close.periment in Italy are being close-Motor Transport Congress on the It is now clear to everybody that ly watched. I have never met a subject and that discussions will be the community at the mercy of the who thinks that one-man rule hased beforehand. wage-earners, who rule us not be had its day, cause they are wise, but because they are numerous Such a system is not likely to produce either a just or an intelligent government. Nor does it satisfy the masses. If there are any democrats left in this country, they are elderly Whigs who clang piously to the shibboleths of their youth; Liberalam lives on catchwords. Organised Labour is anything rather than democratic, No freedom of thought or speech ranka. Eve secret voting, the Pal-he were dictator, he would stand ladium of the old Radicals, is re- no nonsense from anybody. So he greatest importance, not only to fused, by the Unions. The unionist paints his heross riding roughshod motor transport companies, but to ennmat call his body or mind or over all opposition, jack-booting railway shareholders, who are like saul or vote his own.
puny opponents, taking away, ly to fend all their support to the beez Democracy has
already baubles, and comporting themselves movement. destroyed-and by the class which generally as the scholar likes to called itself democratie when the imagine himself doing. word was anathema in Parliament.
The Prancing Heross. We have not the choice whether wa
But unromantic history gives us wish to be governed by a repre
a very different picture of these sentative Democracy; that form of
prancing heroes. Cromwell, for government postulates a fundamen example, is shown by 8. R. Gar- tal loyalty which no longer exists diner to have been a cautious op
"Catching the Speaker's Eye.”
portunist, steering a rather devious On the Continent, where the course through innumerable dif- forms of representative government culties, and never possessing much are mostly borrowed from England, freedom of action. Napoleon, when it may be questioned whether they he came to reflect on his stormy ever have worked satisfactorily. career, mixed a few Machiavellian Government by public debate re-maxims with others of a very quires a more phlegmatic tempera different kind, such as The longer ment than the Latin races possess recriminations sometimes lead to bws, and more than me Honour ale Deputy has been known to catch the Speaker's eye" with a well-aimed inkpot. Even where As for Nietzsche, Canon Streeter the proceedings are orderly, Pax has lately written excellent sense on accusation against liamentary government, except in his famous its original home, seems to com-Christ of having been the all too of slave- mand no confidence or affection successful prophet In France politicians as a class morality." it is Nietzsche himself are disliked and despised, and who shows the tempers of the slave. "Sheer power-hard, empty, hec- France is one of the few countries in which Democracy any longer toring power-is the dream of the |down-trodden.”. Such men neither exists.
In the seventeenth century, as understand nor want the fellowship of mutual consideration, courtesy, everybody knows, bereditary cu archy was becoming automatic, and self-respect, which the free- among the ruin of feudalism. The porn take for granted. The slave Stuarts tried to do in England likes to imagine himself the kind of man he supposes his master to what their brother-monarchs were doing on the Continent, and they be. The real rulers of men are not were only stopped at the cost of at all like what the slave supposes. a civil war and a revolution. This". When the Strong Man Weakens. type of State disappeared from the The will to power, when it is earth what the three Emperon either exaggerated or divorced were dethroned as the result of the from the will to achieve some parti- Great War. But the result has not calar object, regarded as desirable been, as many expected, a univer for its own sake, is pathological Bal victory for Democracy or Re- and akin to madness. It may over- publicanism. On the contrary, a come a Caligula cat an Ivan the new type of dictator has arisen Terrible, but the horn ruler desires July 29th:5.58 a.m. and the form of government which only to husband resources which ha he-representa is a formidable rival-knows to be limited. The religion of Democracy.
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Dictatorial Idealism.
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1 live, the more convinced "I am that nothing" permanent can be achieved by force alone," "Man can be governed only through the imagination."
Christ has never inculcated i slave-morality, except when, under
Co-operation'
Preliminary conversations, I un- derstand, will begin almost im mediately, and there would seem every indication that at long last the fight between the two transport systems may come to an end this
year.
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Last year one heard everywhere, Oriental influences, it has envisag others, there is the difficulty of "O that we could find a Mused the Deity as a capricious and getting rid of the strong man when Fri, solini!" It ie a new thing to hear cruel Sultan.
There is not much romance about he is no longer strong. If "the the question calmly discussed whe
world knows nothing of its greatest- ther a military dictatorship would the business of dictator when view to one relaan 16 thus they are not be better for the country than ed at close quarters. The strong ceasing to be great when the world the authority of the Mother of man" any at times be necessary discovers them. Napoleon's mar-Mon. 1 Parliamenta.
After a long régime of parrots, and shals were beginning to grumble at It is not, I think, that we no monkeys, most people would be his incompetence in the Russian Turis longer value liberty and self-gov glad to welcome an angle.
campaign when he had reached the emment, but if these are denied there are many objections to dicta advanced age of forty-three. and repudiated by a large section torships, except an emergency exIn this country we should have of the population, we need for our pedients which was the function to be in very bad way before we Thur. Protection a stronger arm than that intended for them at Rome. Among called in Caesar, even if we knew. of the House of Commons. Better, (Vontinued at foot of next column), where to look for him.
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