203. We Who Hold a Different Belief

The extravagance of sympathy for God belongs to a democratic age. All together at one in the cry and impatience of their sympathy, in their deadly hatred of suffering generally. At one in their belief in the community as the deliverer, in the herd, and therefore in themselves. We who regard the democratic movement not only as a degenerating form of political organization, but as equivalent to a degenerating, awakening type of man,. where have we to fix our hopes? In new philosophers, there is no other alternative; they will transvalue and invert eternal valuations.