According to Lyman Abbott, Congregationalist minister and editor of Outlook, the “two contrasted principles” — Nietzsche’s “self-seeking” versus Jesus’s “altruistic” ethics—reflected the two competing answers between which moderns must choose: According to one conception, the end of life is the development of a type—what Friedrich Nietzsche calls “the beyond man;” according to the other conception, the end of life is the development of a race organized in a new social order—what Jesus calls “the kingdom of heaven;” according to the one conception, the method is self-service and the sacrifice
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