Editing Beyond Good and Evil (section)

== On nations, peoples and cultures ==

Nietzsche discusses the complexities of the German soul (§&nbsp;244), praises the [[Jews]] and heavily criticizes the trend of German [[antisemitism]] (§&nbsp;251). He praises France as "the seat of Europe's most spiritual and refined culture and the leading school of taste" (§&nbsp;254). He finds the [[English people|English]] coarse, gloomy, more brutal than the Germans, and declares that "they are no philosophical race", singling out [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Bacon]], [[Hobbes]], [[David Hume|Hume]] and [[John Locke|Locke]] as representing a "debasement and devaluation of the concept 'philosopher' for more than a century" (§&nbsp;252). Nietzsche also touches on problems of translation and the leaden quality of the German language (§&nbsp;28).

In a prophetic statement, Nietzsche proclaims that "The time for petty politics is past: the very next century will bring with it the struggle for mastery over the whole earth" (§&nbsp;208).