Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... many times over the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had lame paws!1 Obedience, subordination, submission, devotion, love, the pride of duty; fatalism, resignation, objectivity, stoicism, asceticism, self-denial; in short, anemia: these are the virtues which the herd would have all men cultivate, -- particularly the strong men.2 And the deification of Jesus, -- that is to say of meekness, -- what was it but another attempt to lull the strong to sleep? 2 Democracy See, now, how nearly that attempt has succeeded. For is not democracy, if not victorious, at least on the road to victory to-day? And what is the democratic movement but the inheritor of Christianity?' Not the Christianity of the great popes; they knew better, and were building a splendid aristocracy when Luther spoiled it all by letting loose the levelling instincts of the herd.4 The instinct of the herd is in favor of the leveller (Christ).5 I very much fear that the first Christian is in his deepest instincts a rebel against everything privileged; he lives and struggles unremittingly for "equal rights." It is by Christianity, more than by anything else, that the poison of this doctrine of "equal rights" has 1 Z., p. 166. W. P., 721; T. I., p. 89. B. G. E., 202. W., 358; Antich., 361. W. P., 284. Antich., J 46. been spread abroad. And do not let us underestimate the fatal influence! Nowadays no one has the courage of special rights, of rights of dominion. The aristocratic attitude of mind has been most thoroughly undermined by the lie of the equality of souls.1 But is not this the greatest of all lies -- the "equality of men "? That is to say, the dominion of the inferior. Is it not the most threadbare..."
