Thus I divined to what extent a stronger kind of man must necessarily imagine--the elevation and enhancement of man in another direction: _higher creatures,_ beyond good and evil, beyond those values which bear the stamp of their origin in the sphere of suffering, of the herd, and of the greater number--I searched for the data of this topsy-turvy formation of ideals in history (the concepts "pagan," "classical," "noble," have been discovered afresh and brought forward). 1042. We should demonstrate to what extent the religion of the Greeks was _higher_ than Judæo-Christianity. The latter triumphed because the Greek religion was degenerate (and decadent). 1043. It is not surprising that a couple of centuries have been necessary in order to link up again--a couple of centuries are very little indeed. 1044. There must be some people who sanctify functions, not only eating and drinking, and not only in memory of them, or in harmony with them; but this world must be for ever glorified anew, and in a novel fashion. 1045. The most intellectual men feel the ecstasy and charm of _sensual_ things in a way which other men --those with "fleshy hearts"--cannot possibly imagine, and ought not to be able to imagine: they are sensualists with the best possible faith, because they grant the senses a more fundamental value than that fine sieve, that thinning and mincing machine, or whatever it is called, which in the language of the people is termed _"spirit"_ The strength and power of the senses--this is the most essential thing in a sound man who is one of Nature's lucky strokes: the splendid beast must first be there--otherwise what is the value of all "humanisation"? 1046. (1) We want to hold fast to our senses, and to the belief in them--and accept their logical conclusions! The hostility to the senses in the philosophy that has been written up to the present, has been man's greatest feat of nonsense. (2) The world now extant, on which all earthly and living things have so built themselves, that it now appears as it does (enduring and proceeding slowly), we would fain _continue building_--not criticise it away as false! (3) Our valuations help in the process of building; they emphasise and accentuate. What does it mean when whole religions say: "Everything is bad and false and evil"? This condemnation of the whole process can only be the judgment of the failures! (4) True, the failures might be the greatest sufferers and therefore the most subtle! The contented might be worth little! (5) We must understand the fundamental _artistic_ phenomenon which is called "Life,"--_the formative_ spirit, which constructs under the most unfavourable circumstances: and in the slowest manner possible----The _proof_ of all its combinations must first be given afresh: _it maintains itself._ 1047.