Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:44:16 -0800
From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche, Mill, and James


>R.H. Albright wrote:
> I was also reminded by
> a friend that Mill was blessed enough to grow up in a relatively more
> "free" society than Nietzsche, and that this is an important thing to
> consider, to paraphrase _Thus Spoke..._, to understand where each thinker
> is "coming from".
> 

Your friend should explain to you his idea of "free society".
I find it interesting that Prussia was the first country to
provide compulsorary and free public education. In addition,
even Frederick the Great was not above the law as evidenced
by a lawsuit brought against him by a peasant.

Perhaps by "free" he meant free to starve the Irish and free
to wage their "Opium Wars". We seem to all too easily overlook the
fact that America successfully fought to free itself from English
tyranny. Granted, after the Civil War and the destruction of
the founding Southern Aristocracy, mercantile intrests closely
allied with the English gained ascendency in the political vacuum
thus created. However, the days of the English leading America by
the nose as they did with American entry into WWI are over with.
Indeed, we see now quite a role reversal!

John T. Duryea


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