Excerpt from The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Vol. 9: The Dawn of DayWhen Nietzsche called his book T lze Dawn of Day, he was far from giving it a merely fanciful title to attract the attention of that large section of the public which judges books by their titles rather than by their contents. The Dawn of Day represents, figuratively, the dawn of Nietzsche's own philo sophy. Hitherto he had been considerably influ enced in his outlook, if not in his actual thoughts, by Schopenhauer, Wagner, and perhaps also Comte. Haman, all - too-human, belongs to a period of transi tion. After his rupture with Bayreuth, Nietzsche is, in both parts of that work, trying to stand on his own legs, and to regain his spiritual freedom he is feeling his way to his own philosophy. T/ze Dawn of Day, written in I 8 8 I under the invigorating influ ence of a Genoese spring, is the dawn of this new Nietzsche. With this book I open my campaign against morality, he himself said later in his auto biography, the Eoee Homo.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.