Nietzsche reserved special contempt for the English philosophical tradition, seeing in its utilitarianism and empiricism a triumph of mediocrity over greatness. “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does,” he declared — skewering Bentham and Mill’s reduction of morality to mere comfort and calculation. For Nietzsche, British moral philosophy was herd morality dressed in academic clothing: it flattened human hierarchy, punished excellence, and mistook survival for nobility. Even Darwin’s legacy, filtered through Spencer, pointed downward toward the average. The English, he charged, were industrious but philosophically shallow — incapable of the dangerous, self-overcoming thought true philosophy demands.