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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Antichrist This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: The Antichrist Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Translator: H. L. Mencken Release date: September 18, 2006 [eBook #19322] Most recently updated: June 2, 2007 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19322 Credits: Produced by Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ANTICHRIST *** Produced by Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE ANTICHRIST BORZOI POCKET BOOKS A complete list to date of this series of popular reprints, bound uniformly with a design and endpapers by Claude Bragdon, may be found at the back of this volume. One book will appear each month, numbered for convenience in ordering. THE ANTICHRIST _by_ F. W. NIETZSCHE _Translated from the German with an introduction by_ H. L. MENCKEN _New York_ ALFRED A. KNOPF COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. _Pocket Book Edition, Published September, 1923 Second Printing, November, 1924_ _Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N. Y._ _Paper manufactured by W. C. Hamilton & Sons, Miquon, Pa., and furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York._ MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CONTENTS PAGE