and further-sighted sympathy: — we see how MAN dwarfs himself, how YOU dwarf him!

and there are moments when we view YOUR sympathy with an indescribable anguish, when we resist it, — when we regard your seriousness as more dangerous than any kind of levity. You want, if possible — and there is not a more foolish “if possible” — TO DO AWAY WITH SUFFERING; and we? — it really seems that WE would rather have it increased and made worse than it has ever been! Well-being, as you understand it — is certainly not a goal; it seems to us an END; a condition which at once renders man ludicrous and contemptible — and makes his destruction DESIRABLE! The discipline of suffering, of GREAT suffering — know ye not that it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the