passionate grimaces what he knew about himself: namely, what was LACKING in Carlyle — real POWER of intellect, real DEPTH of intellectual perception, in short, philosophy.

It is characteristic of such an unphilosophical race to hold on firmly to Christianity — they NEED its discipline for “moralizing” and humanizing. The Englishman, more gloomy, sensual, headstrong, and brutal than the German — is for that very reason, as the baser of the two, also the most pious: he has all the MORE NEED of Christianity. To finer nostrils, this English Christianity itself has still a characteristic English taint of spleen and alcoholic excess, for which, owing to good reasons, it is used as an antidote — the finer poison to neutralize the coarser: a finer form of poisoning is in fact a step in advance