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Thread ID: 16862 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-02-21
2005-02-21 01:28 | User Profile
I met Sam Francis twice. I did not know him well. But he did publish an article of mine concerning the pressure India and China will place on world oil supplies. (This is available on my website under writings.)
One who did published this revealing tidbit at the Middle American News website. [url]http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:WLONp1CYzBYJ:www.manews.org/+sam+francis+obituary&hl=en&start=11[/url] [QUOTE] In his office, Sam displayed a framed print of his favorite quotation from Nietzsche, which I had given him. It's from The Gay Science, section 283 of book four, which might provide a fitting epitaph. It reads, in part:
[B][COLOR=Red]I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all. For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require one day ââ¬â the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences. To this end we now need many preparatory courageous human beings ... ââ¬â human beings who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities; ... human beings distinguished as much by cheerfulness, patience, unpretentiousness, and contempt for all great vanities as by magnanimity in victory and forbearance regarding the small vanities of the vanquished; ... human beings ... accustomed to command with assurance but instantly ready to obey when that is called for ââ¬â equally proud, equally serving their own cause in both cases, more endangered human beings, more fruitful human beings, happier beings! For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is ââ¬â to live dangerously![/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]I find it hard to believe that many on this board who still breathe libertarian nonsense will be enamored or even appreciate these sentiments. Yet after reading Francis one can see how little he was interested in economics. Other issues concerned him more.
2005-02-21 01:51 | User Profile
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