History, in [Nietzsche’s] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men’s great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.

— Georg Brandes An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

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