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tions, that for this end the dangerousness of his situation had to be increased enormously, his inventive faculty and dissembling power (his* spirit”) had to develop into subtlety and daring under long oppression and conpulsion. and his Wilí to Life had to be increused to the unconditioned 'Will to Power: we believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind,-that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposites:—we do not even say enough when we only say this much; and in any case we find ourselves here, both with our speech and our silence, at the other extreme of all modern ideology and gregarious desirability, as their antipodes' perhaps ? What wonder that we “ free spirits" are not exactly the most communicative spirits ? that we do not wish to betray in every respect what a spirit can free itself from, and where perhaps it will then be driven ? And as to the import of the dangerous formula, " Beyond Good and Evil,” with which we at least avoid confusion, we are something else than "libres penseurs,” vi liberi pensatori,” free-thinkers,” and whatever these honest' advocates of modern ideas” like to call themselves Having been at home, or at least guests, in many realms of the spirit; having escaped again and again from
