The doctrine of equality!... But there is no more deadly poison than this for it _seems_ to proceed from the very lips of justice, whereas in reality it draws the curtain down on all justice.... "To equals equality, to unequals inequality"--that would be the real speech of justice and that which follows from it. "Never make unequal things equal." The fact that so much horror and blood are associated with this doctrine of equality, has lent this "modern idea" _par excellence_ such a halo of fire and glory, that the Revolution as a drama has misled even the most noble minds. 108-109 X "The Antichrist" ("_Der Antichrist_") was written in September, 1888, work evidently having been begun on it as soon as "The Twilight of the Idols" had been sent to the publisher. Its composition could not have occupied more than a few weeks at most, for the former book was not despatched until September 7, and the present work was completed before October. At this time Nietzsche was working at high pressure. He must have had some presentiment of his impending breakdown for he filled in every available minute with ardent and rapid writing. The fall of 1888 was the most prolific period of his life. No less than four books "The Twilight of the Idols," "The Antichrist," "Nietzsche _contra_ Wagner" and _"Ecce Homo"_--were completed by him between the late summer and the first of the year; and in addition to this he made many notes for his future volumes and read and corrected a considerable amount of proofs. "The Antichrist," however, though completed in 1888, was not published until the end of 1894, six years after he had laid aside his work forever, and at a time when his mind was too darkened to know or care about the circumstances of its issuance. It appeared in Vol. XIII of _Nietzsches Werke_ which, although published at the close of 1894, bore the date of the following year. "The Antichrist" which, like "Beyond Good and Evil," "The Genealogy of Morals" and "The Twilight of the Idols," forms a part of Nietzsche's final philosophic scheme, was intended--to judge from the evidence contained in his notebooks--as the first division of a work to be entitled "The Trans valuation of All Values" ("_Die Umwertung Aller Werte_"). In fact this title and also "The Will to Power" were considered alternately for his _magnum opus_ which he intended writing after the completion of "The Transvaluation of All Values." He finally decided on the latter title for his great work, although he used the former caption as a subtitle. The complete outline for the volumes which were to be called "The Transvaluation of All Values" and which were to be incorporated in his final general plan, is as follows: 1. "The Antichrist. An Attempted Criticism of Christianity." ("_Der Antichrist: Versuch einer Kritik des Christenthums._") 2. "The Free Spirit. A Criticism of Philosophy as a Nihilistic Movement." ("_Der freie Geist: Kritik der Philosophie als einer nihilistischen Bewegung_")