Peace I leave with you,
My peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
John 14:7
"In the years following Darwin, struggle became a dominant theme in western thought. Struggle was seen as a creative force driving progress in biology, society, economics, and war. It was used to justify imperialism, racial hierarchies, and eugenics.
Chess champion and philosopher Emanuel Lasker took this line in his 1906 book Kampf (rendered Struggle in the 1907 English translation). Hitler’s Mein Kampf, in English translation, kept the original German title, but some English versions rendered the title parenthetically as My Struggle.
Nietzsche reframed the Darwinian struggle as the will to power, an affirmative creative force where exceptional individuals overcome obstacles to achieve self-mastery, higher values, and cultural vitality.
We might therefore say that struggle, by extending natural selection and the competition inherent in it to all spheres of life, became the god of the Darwinian age."
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