Pangs of conscience associated with all that is self-glorifying and original: thus follows the unhappiness--the _gloominess_ of the world from the standpoint of stronger and better-constituted men! Gregarious consciousness and timorousness transferred to philosophy and religion. Let us leave the psychological impossibility of a purely unselfish action out of consideration! 390. My ultimate conclusion is, that the _real_ man represents a much higher value than the "desirable" man of any ideal that has ever existed hitherto; that all "desiderata" in regard to mankind have been absurd and dangerous dissipations by means of which a particular kind of man has sought to establish _his_ measures of preservation and of growth as a law for all; that every "desideratum" of this kind which has been made to dominate has _reduced_ man's worth, his strength, and his trust in the future; that the indigence and mediocre intellectuality of man becomes most apparent, even to-day, when he reveals a _desire_; that man's ability to fix values has hitherto been developed too inadequately to do justice to the actual, not merely to the "desirable," _worth of man_; that, up to the present, ideals have really been the power which has most slandered man and power, the poisonous fumes which have hung over reality, and which have _seduced men to yearn for nonentity_.... D. _A Criticism of the Words: Improving, Perfecting, Elevating._ 391. The standard _according_ to which the value of moral valuations is to be determined. The fundamental fact _that has been overlooked_: The contradiction between "becoming more moral" and the elevation and the strengthening of the type man. _Homo natura_: The "will to power." 392. Moral values regarded as _values of appearance_ and compared with _physiological_ values. 393.