years to come-—until probably, at some very remote period, we notice that the new valuation has become the predominant power within us, and that its small doses, with which in future we have to grow familiar, have imparted a new nature to us. We now begin even to understand this, that the last attempt of a great change of valuations, and that too with regard to political matters—the “great revolution”—was nothing more than a pathetic and bloody quackery, which, by menus of sudden crises, knew how to fill credulous Europe with the hope of sudden recovery, and thereby has made all political invalids impatient and dangerous up to these very days.
535
Truth needs power.—Truth is, in itself, no power at all, despite all that the flattering enlighteners will say to the contrary. On the contrary, it has to draw power over to its side, or to side with power, else it will again and again go to ruin. This has been proved enough and more than enough.
536
The thumb-screw.—It is revolting to observe how cruelly everybody brings his few miserable private virtues to the notice of his neighbour who perhaps does not possess them, and whom he teases and worries with them, Let us therefore deal humanely with the “sense of honesty,” although we may possess in this ‘sense of honesty” a
