the man of action: but unfortunately this happens almost continually. The reason of this is, that every deed, if followed by unexpected consequences, leads to a certain mental disturbance, no matter whether the consequences be good or bad. Behold a lover who has been given a promise, or a poet while he is receiving applause from an audience: as far as _intellectual torpor_ is concerned, these men are in no way different from the anarchist who is suddenly confronted by a detective bearing a search warrant. There are some acts which are _unworthy_ of us: acts which, if they were regarded as typical, would set us down as belonging to a lower class of man. The one fault that has to be avoided here, is to regard them as typical. There is another kind of act of which _we_ are unworthy: exceptional acts, born of a particular abundance of happiness and health; they are the highest waves of our spring tides, driven to an unusual height by a storm--an accident: such acts and "deeds" are also not typical. An artist should never be judged according to the measure of his works. 236. A. In proportion as Christianity seems necessary to-day, man is still wild and fatal.... B. In another sense, it is not necessary, but extremely dangerous, though it is captivating and seductive, because it corresponds with the _morbid_ character of whole classes and types of modern humanity, ... they simply follow their inclinations when they aspire to Christianity--they are decadents of all kinds. A and B must be kept very sharply apart. In the _case of A,_ Christianity is a cure, or at least a taming process (under certain circumstances it serves the purpose of making people ill: and this is sometimes useful as a means of subduing savage and brutal natures). In the _case of B,_ it is a symptom of illness itself, it renders the state of decadence _more acute_; in this case it stands opposed to a _corroborating_ system of treatment, it is the invalid's instinct standing _against_ that which would be most salutary to him. 237. On one side there are the _serious,_ the _dignified,_ and _reflective_ people: and on the other the barbarous, the unclean, and the irresponsible beasts: it is merely a question of _taming animals_--and in this case the tamer must be hard, terrible, and awe-inspiring, at least to his beasts. All essential requirements must be imposed upon the unruly creatures with almost brutal distinctness--that is to say, magnified a thousand times. Even the fulfilment of the requirement must be presented in the coarsest way possible, so that it may command respect, as in the case of the spiritualisation of the Brahmins. _The struggle with the rabble and the herd._ If any degree of tameness and order has been reached, the chasm separating these _purified_ and _regenerated_ people from the terrible _remainder_ must have been bridged....