unripened epigone

history is written by the experienced and superior man...

Draw about yoursleves the fence of a great and embracing hope, a hopeful striving. From an image for yourselves to which the future ought to correspond and forget the superstition taht you are epigoni. You have enough to ponder and invent by pondering that future life; but do not ask history to show the How? and the Wherewith? If, on the other hand, you live yourselves into the history of great men you will learn from it a highest commandment, to become ripe and to flee from that paralyzing educational constraint of the age, which sees its advantage in preventing your becoming ripe, in order to rule and to exploit you unripe ones. And if you want biographies then not those withtherefrain "Mr. So-and-so and his Time" but rather those on whose title page should be inscribed "A Fighter Against his Time". Satisfy your souls on Plutarch and dare to believe in yourselves when you believe in his heroes. A hundred such men educated against the modern fashion, that is, men who have ripened and are used to the heroic, could now silence forever teh whole noisy pseudo-education of our time."


Note to self: live to change history-not to learn it. unripe yourself foolish wanderers and bare not the burdens of our past generations, but live forward and enoble your seed to make great the history of tomorrow.