When I Was A Little Boy I

Since Fresh Examples And Proofs Could Always Be Found Of The Alleged Relation Between Guilt And Punishment: If You Behave In Such And Such A Way, It Will Go Badly With You. Now, As It Generally Does Go Badly, The Allegation Was Constantly Confirmed; And Thus Popular Morality, A Pseudo- Science On A Level With Popular Medicine, Continually Gained Ground.

Instead Of Trying To Educate The Human Race, They Should Imitate The Pedagogues Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Who Concentrated Their Efforts On The Education Of A Single Person.

Dostoevsky Preaches The Morality Of The Pariah, The Morality Of The Slave.

We Need Only Think Of The Number Of Talented Men Who Sooner Or Later Make Their Apologies And Concessions To Philistinism, So As To Be Permitted To Exist.

What Has Here Happened Is That The Instinct Of Cruelty, Which Has Turned Inwards, Has Become Self-torture, And All Man's Animal Instincts Have Been Reinterpreted As Guilt Towards God. Every Nay Man Utters To His Nature, To His Real Being, He Flings Out As A Yea, An Affirmation Of Reality Applied To God's Sanctity