This is of the same nature as: "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." In this particular case when, with that "bucolic simplicity," the Founder of Christianity recommended a certain practice to His disciples, in the event of sexual excitement, the result would not be only the loss of a particular member, but the actual castration of the whole of the man's character.... And the same applies to the moral mania, which, instead of insisting upon the control of the passions, sues for their extirpation. Its conclusion always is: only the emasculated man is a good man. Instead of making use of and of _economising_ the great sources of passion, those torrents of the soul which are often so dangerous, overwhelming, and impetuous, morality--this most shortsighted and most corrupted of mental attitudes--would fain make them _dry up._ 384. _Conquest over the passions?_--No, not if this is to mean their enfeeblement and annihilation. _They must be enlisted in our service_: and to this end it may be necessary to tyrannise them a good deal (not as individuals, but as communities, races, etc.). At length we should trust them enough to restore their freedom to them: they love us like good servants, and willingly go wherever our best interests lie. 385. _Intolerance on the part of morality_ is a sign of man's _weakness_: he is frightened of his own "immorality," he must _deny_ his strongest _instincts,_ because he does not yet know how to use them. Thus the most fruitful quarters of the globe remain uncultivated longest: the power is lacking that might become master here.... 386. There are some very simple peoples and men who believe that continuous fine weather would be a desirable thing: they still believe to-day in _rebus moralibus,_ that the "good man" alone and nothing else than the "good man" is to be desired, and that the ultimate end of man's evolution will be that only the good man will remain on earth (and that it is only to that end that all efforts should be directed). This is in the highest degree an _uneconomical_ thought; as we have already suggested, it is the very acme of simplicity, and it is nothing more than the expression of the _agreeableness_ which the "good man" creates (he gives rise to no fear, he permits of relaxation, he gives what one is able to take). With a more educated eye one learns to desire exactly the reverse--that is to say, an ever greater _dominion of evil,_ man's gradual emancipation from the narrow and aggravating bonds of morality, the growth of power around the greatest forces of Nature, and the ability to enlist the passions in one's service. 387. The whole idea of the hierarchy of the _passions_: as if the only right and normal thing were to be led by _reason_--whereas the passions are abnormal, dangerous, half-animal, and moreover, in so far as their end is concerned, nothing more than _desires for pleasure...._