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" and<br />
it<br />
142 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL<br />
other respects, in one thingwe are nevertheless the worthy<br />
grandchildrenof our grandfathers, we last Europeans with<br />
good consciences: we also still wear their<br />
"<br />
pigtail. Ah! if<br />
you onlyknew how soon, so very soon "<br />
will be different!<br />
215<br />
As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two sims<br />
which determine the path of one planet,and in certain<br />
cases suns of differentcolours shine around a singleplanet,<br />
now with red light, now with green, and then simultaneously<br />
illumine and flood it with motley colours: so we modem<br />
men, owing to the complicatedmechanism of our "firmament,"<br />
shine<br />
actions are<br />
are determined by different moralities;our actions<br />
alternately in different colours,and are seldom unequivocal<br />
there are often cases, also,in which our<br />
motley-coloured.<br />
216<br />
To love one's enemies? I think that has been well<br />
learnt: it takes placethousands of times at present on a<br />
largeand small scale;indeed,at times the higherand sublimer<br />
thingtakes<br />
"<br />
place: we learn to despisewhen we love,<br />
and precisely when we love best;all of it,however,unconsciously,<br />
without noise,without ostentation, with the shame<br />
and secrecy of goodness,which forbids the utterance of the<br />
pompous word and the formula of virtue. Moralityas attitude<br />
" is<br />
opposed to our taste nowadays. This is also an<br />
%idvance, as it was an advance in our fathers that religion<br />
as an attitude finallybecame opposed to their taste, includKigthe<br />
enmity and Voltairean bitterness againstreligion<br />
fand all that formerlybelongedto freethinker-panto
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