beast." On the strength of this alliteration it is assumed that
Nietzsche gained his European reputation by a senseless
glorification of selfish bullying as the rule of life, just as it
is assumed, on the strength of the single word Superman
(Ubermensch) borrowed by me from Nietzsche, that I look for the
salvation of society to the despotism of a single Napoleonic
Superman, in spite of my careful demonstration of the folly of
that outworn infatuation. But even the less recklessly
superficial critics seem to believe that the modern objection to
Christianity as a pernicious slave-morality was first put forward
by Nietzsche. It was familiar to me before I ever heard of
Nietzsche. The late Captain Wilson, author of several queer
pamphlets, propagandist of a metaphysical system called
Comprehensionism, and inventor of the term "Crosstianity" to
distinguish the retrograde element in Christendom, was wont
thirty years ago, in the discussions of the Dialectical Society,
to protest earnestly against the beatitudes of the Sermon on the
Mount as excuses for cowardice and servility, as destructive of
our will, and consequently of our honor and manhood. Now it is
true that Captain Wilson's moral criticism of Christianity was
not a historical theory of it, like Nietzsche's; but this
objection cannot be made to Mr Stuart-Glennie, the successor of
Buckle as a philosophic historian, who has devoted his life to
the elaboration and propagation of his theory that Christianity
is part of an epoch (or rather an aberration, since it began as
recently as 6000BC and is already collapsing) produced by the
necessity in which the numerically inferior white races found
themselves to impose their domination on the colored races by
priestcraft, making a virtue and a popular religion of drudgery
and submissiveness in this world not only as a means of achieving