These sentences are so extremely ANTIPODAL to my ears and habits of thought, that in my first impulse of rage on finding them, I wrote on the margin, “LA NIAISERIE RELIGIEUSE PAR EXCELLENCE!” — until in my later rage I even took a fancy to them, these sentences with their truth absolutely inverted!

It is so nice and such a distinction to have one’s own antipodes!

49. That which is so astonishing in the religious life of the ancient Greeks is the irrestrainable stream of GRATITUDE which it pours forth — it is a very superior kind of man who takes SUCH an attitude towards nature and life. — Later on, when the populace got the upper hand in Greece, FEAR became rampant also in religion; and Christianity was preparing itself.