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opposed to the truly crucial question of personal experience.
"The distance, and as it were the space around man, grows
with the strength of his intellectual vision and insight;
his world becomes profounder; new stars, new enigmas, and
notions are ever coming into view" (6, p. 75). Rather than
the creater, along with Kant, of idealism of the Nazi type,
Nietzsche attacks those who flock to the leader and sacri-
fice individual freedom for the comfort and security of
conforming to a master: "In spite of all, what a blessing,
what a deliverance from a weight becoming unendurable, is
the appearance of an absolute ruler . . (6, p. 121).
This observation of man's intolerance for the responsi-
bility of freedom was later the theme of a complete book,
Escape from Freedom, in which Fromm (4) describes the pre-
dicament of the German people which made possible the rise
of Hitler: . .in our effort to escape from aloneness
and powerlessness, we are ready to get rid of our individual
self either by submission to new forms of authority or by a
compulsive conforming to accepted patterns" (4, p. 135).
Man's very nature demands that he seek freedom but it does
not guarantee that he can bear the burden of responsibility
which it presents. But how could man's intelligence so mis-
guide him? By seeking to comfort him through misinterpre-
tation of the reality of experience! Nietzsche says,
Even in the midst of the most remarkable experiences,
we still do just the same; we fabricate the greater
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Patrick, Jerry Heard, 1933-. Use of the Reve Eveille Dirige (Guided Daydream) for Selection of Vocation and College Major, dissertation, January 1965; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164200/m1/42/?q=%22Doctor+of+Education%22&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .