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Title: The Antichrist

Author: F. W. Nietzsche

Translator: H. L. Mencken

Release Date: September 18, 2006 [EBook #19322]

Language: English

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THE ANTICHRIST

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THE ANTICHRIST

_by_

F. W. NIETZSCHE

_Translated from the German
with an introduction by_
H. L. MENCKEN

_New York_
ALFRED A. KNOPF

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

_Pocket Book Edition, Published September, 1923
Second Printing, November, 1924_

_Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press,
Binghamton, N. Y._

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CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION BY H. L. MENCKEN 7
AUTHOR'S PREFACE 37
THE ANTICHRIST 41

INTRODUCTION

Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, "Ecce Homo," "The
Antichrist" is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may
be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their
final form. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to
have constituted the first volume of his long-projected _magnum opus_,
"The Will to Power." His full plan for