Seeing that all our classes are permeated by these elements, we have grasped the fact that _modern society_ is not a "society" or a "body," but a diseased agglomeration of Chandala,--a society which no longer has the strength even to _excrete_. To what extent living together for centuries has very much deepened _sickliness_: modern virtue } modern intellect} as forms of disease. modern science } 51. _The state of corruption._--The interrelation of all forms of corruption should be understood, and the Christian form (Pascal as the type), as also the socialistic and communistic (a result of the Christian), should not be overlooked (from the standpoint of natural science, the _highest_ conception of society according to socialists, is the lowest in the order of rank among societies); the "Beyond" --corruption: as though outside the real world of Becoming there were a world of Being. Here there must be no compromise, but selection, annihilation, and war--the Christian Nihilistic standard of value must be withdrawn from all things and attacked beneath every disguise ... for instance, from modern _sociology, music,_ and _Pessimism_ (all forms of the Christian ideal of values). Either one thing _or_ the other is true--that is to say, tending to elevate the type man.... The priest, the shepherd of souls, should be looked upon as a form of life which must be suppressed. All education, hitherto, has been helpless, adrift, without ballast, and afflicted with the contradiction of values. Either one thing _or_ the other is true--that is to say, tending to elevate the type man.... The priest, the shepherd of souls, should be looked upon as a form of life which must be suppressed. All education, hitherto, has been helpless, adrift, without ballast, and afflicted with the contradiction of values. 52. If Nature have no pity on the degenerate, it is not therefore immoral: the growth of physiological and moral evils in the human race, is rather the _result_ of _morbid and unnatural morality._ The sensitiveness of the majority of men is both morbid and unnatural. Why is it that mankind is corrupt in a moral and physiological respect? The body degenerates if one organ is _unsound._ The _right of altruism_ cannot be traced to physiology, neither can the right to help and to the equality of fate: these are all premiums for degenerates and failures. There can be no _solidarity_ in a society containing unfruitful, unproductive, and destructive members, who, by the bye, are bound to have offspring even more degenerate than they are themselves. 53. Decadence exercises a profound and perfectly unconscious influence, even over the ideals of science: all our sociology is a proof of this proposition, and it has yet to be reproached with the fact that it has only the experience of _society in the process of decay,_ and inevitably takes its own decaying instincts as the basis of sociological judgment.