Darwin#
Summary#
Nietzsche mentions Darwin as representative of respectable but mediocre English minds gaining ascendancy over European taste. In Beyond Good and Evil, he groups Darwin with John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer as suited to the middle-class region of thought, possessing a certain narrowness, aridity, and industrious carefulness useful for scientific discoveries but lacking the creative genius of higher types. Nietzsche suggests that while such minds serve a purpose in collecting and systematizing facts, they differ fundamentally from those who create new values and signify something new.