Macmillan

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ii8 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
augmentation of human
powers
and arrangements; he knows
with all the knowledge of his conviction how unexhausted
man still is for the greatest possibilities, and how often in
the past the type man
has stood in
presence
of
mysterious
decisions and
new paths:
"
knows still better from his
painfulest recollections on
what wretched obstacles promising
developments of the highest rank have hitherto usually gone
to pieces, broken down, sunk, and become contemptible.
The universal degeneracy of mankind to the level of the
"man of the future"
idealised by the socialistic fools and
shallow-pates
"
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/