One should not embellish or dress up Christianity: it has waged a war to the

death against this higher type of man, it has excomminucated all the

fundamental instincts of this type, it has distilled evil, the Evil One, out

of these instincts - the strong human beings as the type of

reprehensibility, as the 'outcast'. Christianity has taken the side of

everything weak, base, illconstituted, it has made an ideal out of

opposition to the preservation instincts of strong life; it has depraved the

reason even of the intellectually strongest natures by teaching men to feel

supreme values of intellectuality as sinful, as misleading, as temptations