Excerpt from The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Vol. 5: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation; Thoughts Out of Season, Part TwoBut who are the men that can use history rightly, and for whom it is a help and not a hindrance to life? They are the great men of action and thought, the lonely giants amid the pigmies. To them alone can the record of their great fore bears be a consolation as well as a lesson. In the realm of thought, they are of the type of the ideal philosopher sketched in the second essay. To Nietzsche the only hope of the race lies in the production of the genius, of the man who can bear the burden of the future and not be swamped by the past: he found the personal expression of such a man, for the time being, in Schopenhauer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.