_(b)_ Likewise in _politics_: the individual lacks the belief in his own right, innocence; falsehood rules supreme, as also the worship of the moment. _(d)_ Likewise in _political economy_: the abolition of slavery: the lack of a redeeming class, and of _one who justifies_--the rise of anarchy. "Education"? _(d)_ Likewise in _history_: fatalism, Darwinism; the last attempts at reconciling reason and Godliness fail. Sentimentality in regard to the past: biographies can no longer be endured! (Phenomenalism even here: character regarded as a mask; there are no facts.) _(e)_ Likewise in _Art_: romanticism and its _counter-stroke_ (repugnance towards romantic ideals and lies). The latter, morally, as a sense of greatest truthfulness, but pessimistic. Pure "artists" (indifference as to the "subject"). (The psychology of the father-confessor and puritanical psychology--two forms of psychological romanticism: but also their counter-stroke, the attempt to maintain a purely artistic attitude towards "men"--but even in this respect no one dares to make the _opposite_ valuation.) 70. _Against_ the teaching of the influence of _environment_ and external causes: the power coming from inside is infinitely _superior_; much that appears like influence acting from without is merely the subjection of environment to this inner power. Precisely the same environment may be used and interpreted in opposite ways: there are no facts. A genius is _not_ explained by such theories concerning origins. 71. "_Modernity_" regarded in the light of nutrition and digestion. Sensitiveness is infinitely more acute (beneath moral vestments: the increase of pity), the abundance of different impressions is greater than ever. The _cosmopolitanism_ of articles of diet, of literature, newspapers, forms, tastes, and even landscapes. The speed of this affluence is _prestissimo_; impressions are wiped out, and people instinctively guard against assimilating anything or against taking anything _seriously_ and "digesting" it; the result is a weakening of the powers of digestion. There begin a sort of _adaptation_ to this accumulation of impressions. Man unlearns the art of _doing,_ and _all he does is to react_ to stimuli coming from his environment. _He spends his strength,_ partly in the process of _assimilation,_ partly in _defending himself,_ and again partly in _responding to stimuli. Profound enfeeblement of spontaneity_:--the historian, the critic, the analyst, the interpreter, the observer, the collector, the reader,--all reactive talents,--_all_ science! Artificial _modification_ of one's own nature in order to make it resemble a "mirror"; one is interested, but only epidermally: this is systematic coolness, equilibrium, a steady _low_ temperature, just beneath the thin surface on which warmth, movement, "storm," and undulations play. Opposition of _external_ mobility to a certain _dead heaviness and fatigue_. 72.