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First EssayGood and Evil, Good and Bad9
"But what are you doing still talking about more noble ideals! Let`s look at the facts: the people have triumphed - or `the slaves,` or `the rabble,` or `the herd,` or whatever you want to call them - if this has taken place because of the Jews, then good for them! No people had a more world-historical mission. `The masters` have been disposed of. The morality of the common man has won. We may take this victory as a blood poisoning (it did mix the races up) - I don`t deny that. But this intoxication has undoubtedly been successful. The `Salvation` of the human race (namely, from `the masters`) is well under way. Everything is turning Jewish or Christian or plebeian (what do the words matter!).
The progress of this poison through the entire body of humanity seems irresistible - although its tempo and pace may seem from now on constantly slower, more delicate, less audible, more circumspect - well, we have time enough. . . From this point of view, does the church today still have necessary work to do, does it really have a right to exist? Or could we dispense with it? Quaeritur. [That`s a question to be asked]. It seems that it obstructs and hinders the progress of this poison, instead of speeding it up? Well, that might even be what makes the church useful . . . Certainly the church is something positively gross and vulgar, which a more delicate intelligence, a truly modern taste resists. Should the church at least not be something more sophisticated? . . . Today the church alienates more than it seduces. . . Who among us would really be a free spirit if the church were not there? The church repels us, not its poison. . . . Apart from the church, we love the poison. . . "
This is the epilogue of a "free thinker" to my speech, an honest animal, who has revealed himself well - and he`s a democrat. He listened to me up that that point and couldn`t stand to hear my silence. But for me at this point there is much to be silent about.
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