Blond beast

Immediately after posting the letter Haber traveled to a conference of the International Chemical Union in Santander, on the northern coast of Spain. Einstein s dismissive reply reached him there. I m especially glad. .. that your earlier love for the blond beast has cooled off a bit. Who would have thought that my dear Haber would appear before me as an advocate of the Jewish— and even Palestine s—cause Einstein refused Haber s appeal to meet with Weizmann he had no desire to listen to more of the old fox s lies. He hoped Haber never would return to Germany, where the intellectual class is made up of men who lie on their bellies before common criminals, and even sympathize with those... 

I am especially glad. . . that your earlier love for the blond beast has cooled off a bit, Albert Einstein wrote to a dying and desperate Fritz Haber in 1933. Einstein was referring to an image in... 

Haber s blond beast of progress still roams the globe, still restless, still claiming new territory of knowledge and power. Its conquests have been humanity s treasures—longer and more comfortable lives, freedom from sickness, ignorance, and misery. But the beast is a reckless and unpredictable creature, difficult to control. Left to its own devices, it is prone to wanton destruction. 

The Genealogy is a subversive book that needs to be read with great care. It contains provocative imagery of blond beasts of prey and of the Jewish slave revolt in morality which can easily mislead the unwary reader about the nature of Nietzsche s immoralism. In the preface, Nietzsche mentions the importance of readers familiarizing themselves with his previous books - throughout the book he refers to various sections and aphorisms from them, and occasionally he makes partial citations from them. The critique of morality Nietzsche carries out in the book is a complex one its nuances are lost if one extracts isolated images... 

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