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Then came the colossal shock of the American war and a sudden transvaluation of all the old values.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

Here then was a medium which was the other side of good and evil, a new transvaluation of morals, as Nietzsche would say.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

The creator of the Duchesse de Sanseverina had caught more than a glimpse of the transvaluation of all values.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Perhaps the post-bellum transvaluation of all values will bring Huneker to his feet again, and with something of the old glow and gusto in him.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

For my mind had leaped to a star-cool altitude and grasped a passionless transvaluation of values.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack