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Thus Spake ZarathustraPity, the obliging hand, the warm heart, patience, industry,and humility—these are unquestionably the qualities(B.) The Master- and Slave-Morality Comparedwe shall here find flooded with the light of approval andTHE FIRST MORALITY is active, creative, Dionysian. The secondis passive, defensive,—to it belongs the “struggle ; they make life endurable, they are of assistance in theadmiration; because they are the most useful qualities—for existence.”“struggle for existence” which is the motive force behindWhere attempts have not been made to reconcile the the people practising this morality. To this class, all thattwo moralities, they may be described as follows:—All is is awful is bad, in fact it is the evil par excellence. Strength,good in the noble morality which proceeds from strength, health, superabundance of animal spirits and power, arepower, health, well-constitutedness, happiness, and awfulness;for, the motive force behind the people practisnateclass.regarded with hate, suspicion, and fear by the subordiingit is “the struggle for power.” The antithesis “good Now Nietzsche believed that the first or the noblemoralityconduced to an ascent in the line of life; be-and bad” to this first class means the same as “noble”and “despicable.” “Bad” in the master-morality must be cause it was creative and active. On the other hand, heapplied to the coward, to all acts that spring from weakness,to the man with “an eye to the main chance,” who came paramount, led to degeneration, because it wasbelieved that the second or slave-morality, where it be-would forsake everything in order to live.passive and defensive, wanting merely to keep those whoWith the second, the slave-morality, the case is different.There, inasmuch as the community is an oppressed, morality.practised it alive. Hence his earnest advocacy of noble-suffering, unemancipated, and weary one, all that will beheld to be good which alleviates the state of suffering.(C.) Nietzsche and Evolution296