Do you have the web address for the New Age? Any other Modernist little
magazines or journals from the era online? Robert K> Missed this post -- very illuminating.  The New Age is on line, by the
> way, at the Brown University (now Brown and Tulsa) modernist journals
> project. It's nearly finished and is text-searchable.  A great
> contribution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Redman
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Charles:
>
> More on Pound and Nietzsche
>
> Pound may never have actually studied Nietzsche.  The book by A. R.
> Orage, "Frederick Nietzsche: The Dionysian Spirit of the Age" published
> in 1908 has been suggested as possibly being Pound's Nietzschean source
> book.  Leon Surette describes the Orage/Pound/Nietzsche relationship
> quite well starting on page 220 of "Birth of Modernism"
>
> My copy of Orage's book is quite interesting for the front paper notes
> put there by the original owner.  The original owner signed the book V.
> de M. 1908 and wrote notes on 3 of the front papers in the same ink as
> the initials.  Some of those notes are quite telling of the
> intellectual times.
>
> "Sin,--a Jewish invention" (dashes as original)
>
> "Ye lonely ones of today, ye who stand apart, ye shall one day be a
> people"
>
> "The more emancipated from religion the more impervious does morality
> become"
>
> "The race is corrupted not by its vices but by its ignorance."
>
> "It is better to act wickedly than to think pettily"
>
> "*The* way----existeth (sic) not-!" (dashes as orignial, emphasis as
> original)
>
> and the last I will quote
>
> "Life is something essentially immoral."
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM


      I never submitted the whole system of my
      opinions to the creed of any party of men
      whatever...where I was capable of thinking
      for myself. Such an addiction is the last
      degredation of a free and moral agent. If I
      could not go to heaven but with a party, I
      would not go there at all.
            Thomas Jefferson, from Paris, 1789

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