.--Looking
back, one may almost ask one's self with reason if it was not
actually an aesthetic sense
that kept men blind so long: what they demanded of the truth was
picturesque effectiveness, and of the learned a strong appeal to
their senses. It was our modesty
that stood out longest against
their taste...How well they guessed that, these turkey-cocks of God!
14.
We have unlearned something. We have be come more
modest in every way. We no longer derive man from the "spirit,"
from the "god-head"; we have dropped him back among the
beasts. We regard him as the strongest of the beasts because he is
the craftiest; one of the results thereof is his intellectuality. On
the other hand, we guard ourselves against a conceit which would
assert itself even here: that man is the great second thought in the
process of organic evolution. He is, in truth, anything but the
crown of creation: beside him stand many other animals, all at
similar stages of development... And even when we say that we say a
bit too much, for man, relatively speaking, is the most botched of
all the animals and the sickliest, and he has wandered the most
dangerously from his instincts--though for all that, to be sure, he
remains the most interesting!--
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