"_The Wanderer" Speaks._--In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: for that purpose he _leaves_ the city. "Thoughts concerning moral prejudices," if they are not to be prejudices concerning prejudices, presuppose a position _outside of_ morality, some sort of world beyond good and evil, to which one must ascend, climb, or fly--and in the given case at any rate, a position beyond _our_ good and evil, an emancipation from all "Europe," understood as a sum of inviolable valuations which have become part and parcel of our flesh and blood. That one does _want_ to get outside, or aloft, is perhaps a sort of madness, a peculiar, unreasonable "thou must"--for even we thinkers have our idiosyncrasies of "unfree will"--: the question is whether one _can_ really get there. That may depend on manifold conditions: in the main it is a question of how light or how heavy we are, the problem of our "specific gravity." One must be _very light_ in order to impel one's will to knowledge to such a distance, and as it were beyond one's age, in order to create eyes for oneself for the survey of millenniums, and a pure heaven in these eyes besides! One must have freed oneself from many things by which we Europeans of to-day are oppressed, hindered, held down, and made heavy. The man of such a "Beyond," who wants to get even in sight of the highest standards of worth of his age, must first of all "surmount" this age in himself--it is the test of his power--and consequently not only his age, but also his past aversion and opposition _to_ his age, his suffering _caused by_ his age, his unseasonableness, his Romanticism.... 381.