A new edition of Nietzsche's rare and very short essay "Kann der Neidische je wahrhaft glücklich sein?" written in his childhood school years in September 1863 at the prestigious boarding school Schulpforta, located near Naumburg, Germany. Nietzsche attended Schulpforta from 1858 to 1864, where he received a rigorous classical education that had a significant impact on his later philosophical work. This youthful essay is a very early sketch of his robust works examining the concept of envy in relation to happiness found nested within his broader critiques of morality and human psychology including The Gay Science (1882), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), and On the Genealogy of Morals (1887). We see here a proto-materialism: "It is a sign of a vigorous nature to recognize in things an indissoluble chain of causes and effects, and not merely to believe that grain sown does not yield wheat, but also to extend the same laws to human life and the history of nations." and also an early sketch of his amoral Will-to-Power: "they hint at the terrible power inherent in his evil will. It is precisely in this legend that the deep-rooted hatred of the people against envy is revealed; in their legends and fairy tales it is not treated with jest and ridicule, like many other vices, but with deep contempt and moral displeasure."