The advantages of standing detached from one's age.--Detached from the two movements, that of individualism and that of collectivist morality; for even the first does not recognise the order of rank, and would give one individual the same freedom as another. My thoughts are not concerned with the degree of freedom which should be granted to the one or to the other or to all, but with the degree of power which the one or the other should exercise over his neighbour or over all; and more especially with the question to what extent a sacrifice of freedom, or even enslavement, may afford the basis for the cultivation, of a _superior_ type. In plain words: _how could one sacrifice the development of mankind_ in order to assist a higher species than man to come into being. 860. _Concerning rank._--The terrible consequences of "equality"--in the end everybody thinks he has the right to every problem. All order of rank has vanished. 861. It is necessary for _higher_ men to declare war upon the masses! In all directions mediocre people are joining hands in order to make themselves masters. Everything that pampers, that softens, and that brings the "people" or "woman" to the front, operates in favour of universal suffrage,--that is to say, the dominion of _inferior_ men. But we must make reprisals, and draw the whole state of affairs (which commenced in Europe with Christianity) to the light of day and to judgment. 862. A teaching is needed which is strong enough to work in a _disciplinary_ manner; it should operate in such a way as to strengthen the strong and to paralyse and smash up the world-weary. The annihilation of declining races. The decay of Europe. The annihilation of slave-tainted valuations. The dominion of the world as a means to the rearing of a higher type. The annihilation of the humbug which is called morality (Christianity as a hysterical kind of honesty in this regard: Augustine, Bunyan.) The annihilation of universal suffrage--that is to say, that system by means of which the lowest natures prescribe themselves as a law for higher natures. The annihilation of mediocrity and its prevalence. (The one-sided, the individuals--peoples; constitutional plenitude should be aimed at by means of the coupling of opposites; to this end race-combinations should be tried.) The new kind of courage--no _a priori_ truths (those who were accustomed to believe in something sought such truths!), but _free_ submission to a ruling thought, which has its time; for instance, time conceived as the quality of space, etc. 2. The Strong and the Weak. 863. _The notion, "strong and weak man"_ resolves itself into this, that in the first place much strength is inherited--the man is a total sum; in the other, _not yet enough_ (inadequate inheritance, subdivision of the inherited qualities). Weakness may be a _starting_ phenomenon: _not yet enough_; or a final phenomenon: "no more."