(3) The question of _bodily health_ is being pressed ever more decidedly in front of the health of "the soul": the latter is regarded as a condition brought about by the former, and bodily health is believed to be, at least, the prerequisite to spiritual health. 118. If anything at all has been achieved, it is a more innocent attitude towards the senses, a happier, more favourable demeanour in regard to sensuality, resembling rather the position taken up by Goethe; a prouder feeling has also been developed in knowledge, and the "reine Thor"[6] meets with little faith. [Footnote 6: This is a reference to Wagner's _Parsifal._ The character as is well known, is written to represent a son of heart's affliction, and a child of wisdom--humble, guileless, loving, pure, and a fool.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.] 119. We "_objective people._"--It is not "pity" that opens up the way for _us_ to all that is most remote and most strange in life and culture; but our accessibility and ingenuousness, which precisely does not "pity," but rather takes pleasure in hundreds of things which formerly caused pain (which in former days either outraged or moved us, or in the presence of which we were either hostile or indifferent). Pain in all its various phases is now interesting to us: on that account we are certainly _not_ the more pitiful, even though the sight of pain may shake us to our foundations and move us to tears: and we are absolutely not inclined to be more helpful in view thereof. In this _deliberate_ desire to look on at all pain and error, we have grown stronger and more powerful than in the eighteenth century; it is a proof of our increase of strength (we have _drawn closer_ to the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries). But it is a profound mistake to regard our "romanticism" as a proof of our "beautified souls." We want _stronger_ sensations than all _coarser_ ages and classes have wanted. (This fact must not be confounded with the needs of neurotics and decadents; in their case, of course, there is a craving for pepper --even for cruelty.) We are all seeking conditions _which are emancipated from_ the bourgeois, and to a greater degree from the priestly, notion of morality (every book which savours at all of priestdom and theology gives us the impression of pitiful _niaiserie_ and mental indigence). "Good company," in fact, finds everything insipid which is not forbidden and considered compromising in bourgeois circles; and the case is the same with books, music, politics, and opinions on women. 120. _The simplification of man in the nineteenth century_ (The eighteenth century was that of elegance, subtlety, and generous feeling).--Not "return to nature"; for no natural humanity has ever existed yet. Scholastic, unnatural, and antinatural values are the rule and the beginning; man only reaches Nature after a long struggle--he never turns his "back" to her.... To be natural means, to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.