The Case of Wagner: Nietzsche Contra Wagner, the Twilight of the Idols, the Antichrist (Classic Reprint)

If it be the task of philosophy to unite the results of the various departments of learning into an uncontradictory whole, the philosophy of the present age in Germany and Great Britain can claim a somewhat higher position than that of half a century ago. Although intellectual cobwebspinning in the mode of Spinoza or Hegel has by no means died out, the continuation of speculative tradition is no longer regarded as the test for a philosophers significance. A bove all, natural science, with its results as well as with its unavoidable presuppositions, has within the last half century won a place in general esteem making it impossible for philosophy any longer to neglect it. More especially has the doctrine of evolution in the shape it received in 1859 from Darwin s Origin of Species changed most of the genera concepts about man, his position on the earth, his descent and his relation to the lower animals, and philo sophy has been compelled to define its position towards these new discoveries.
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