why, it exists only owing to your interpretation and bad “philology.” It is no matter of fact, no “text,” but rather just a naively humanitarian adjustment and perversion of meaning, with which you make abundant concessions to the democratic instincts of the modern soul!

“Everywhere equality before the law — Nature is not different in that respect, nor better than we”: a fine instance of secret motive, in which the vulgar antagonism to everything privileged and autocratic — likewise a second and more refined atheism — is once more disguised. “Ni dieu, ni maitre” — that, also, is what you want; and therefore “Cheers for natural law!” — is it not so? But, as has been said, that is interpretation, not text; and somebody might come