Everything that elevates the individual above the herd, and is a source of fear to the neighbour, is henceforth called _evil;_ the tolerant, unassuming, self-adapting, self-equalising disposition, the _mediocrity_ of desires, attains to moral distinction and honour. 125 The _democratic_ movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement. 127 We, who regard the democratic movement, not only as a degenerating form of political organisation, but as equivalent to a degenerating, a waning type of man, as involving his mediocrising and depreciation: where have _we_ to fix our hopes? In _new philosophers_--there is no other alternative: in minds strong and original enough to initiate opposite estimates of value, to transvalue and invert "eternal valuations"; in forerunners, in men of the future, who in the present shall fix the constraints and fasten the knots which will compel millenniums to take _new_ paths. To teach men the future of humanity as his _will,_ as depending on human will, and to make preparation for vast hazardous enterprises and collective attempts in rearing and educating, in order thereby to put an end to the frightful rule of folly and chance which has hitherto gone by the name of "history" (the folly of the "greatest number" is only its last form)--for that purpose a new type of philosophers and commanders will some time or other be needed, at the very idea of which everything that has existed in the way of occult, terrible, and benevolent beings might look pale and dwarfed. 128-129 The _universal degeneracy of mankind_ to the level of the "man of the future"--as idealised by the socialistic fools and shallow-pates--this degeneracy and dwarfing of man to an absolutely gregarious animal (or as they call it, to a man of "free society"), this brutalising of man into a pigmy with equal rights and claims, is undoubtedly _possible!_ He who has thought out this possibility to its ultimate conclusion knows _another_ loathing unknown to the rest of mankind--and perhaps also a new _mission!_ 130-131