s catatonic state. He died in 1945, making him 56. He claims to have always thought to RW for inspiration and guidance. Without any furthur investigation, I might suggest a certain pattern of cyclical overmen - or rather, potential overmen. LvB reaches fruition, RW fails, Nieztsche reaches fruition, Hitler fails. The coincidence of dates is probably just chance, but the frequency at which we see them is a little unnerving, and if nothing else, a cause for the discussion of interesting parallels between interesting people. The reincarnation of ideas and of attitudes towards life is apparent, but to say anything definitive on this happening would not be logical or justified...butIII.The final part of this work is a scattered and unrefined continuation on the ideas implied and suggested above. The research behind this paper has been a sort of mile-stone in my academic life, and I couldn't bear to just finish the paper without looking just a little deeper. The idea of reincarnation, of one soul transferred between bodies, has never really occurred to me, but my deep and profound respect for the two men who reached life's fruition has held my interest in an otherwise dismissable subject. I will generously provide excerpts and relevant resources specific to the reader's various potential reactions and questions-for this section of the paper is my dedication to an interesting topic, not an argument to justify any sort of thesis or point. All relevant writings are attached, and all websites given. If you aren't interested, please stop reading. This brief summation of the concept is from Benjamin Crme-if you are still interested, please read the following: .in the world, today, there are really three approaches to the idea of reincarnation. A two-fold one in the West, where the idea itself is almost non-existent, either a belief in the transmigration of souls - that you could be a human being in one life and an animal in the next, and therefore ...