injury to the higher, rarer, and more privileged types of men.

Moral systems must be compelled first of all to bow before the GRADATIONS OF RANK; their presumption must be driven home to their conscience — until they thoroughly understand at last that it is IMMORAL to say that ‘what is right for one is proper for another.’“ — So said my moralistic pedant and bonhomme. Did he perhaps deserve to be laughed at when he thus exhorted systems of morals to practise morality? But one should not be too much in the right if one wishes to have the laughers on ONE’S OWN side; a grain of wrong pertains even to good taste.

222. Wherever sympathy (fellow-suffering) is preached nowadays — and, if I gather rightly, no other religion is any longer preached —