I Was A Town Child,

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.

But My Doubt Would Not Be Overcome. Kierkegaard Had Declared That It Was Only To The Consciousness Of Sin That Christianity Was Not Horror Or Madness. For Me It Was Sometimes Both.

I Was Not Afraid Of What I Did Not Like. To Overcome Dislike Of A Thing Often Satisfied One's Feeling Of Honour.

Poor Is The Power Of The Lead That Becomes Bullets Compared To The Power Of The Hot Metal That Becomes Types.

History, In [nietzsche's] View, Belongs To Him Who Is Fighting A Great Fight, And Who Needs Examples, Teachers And Comforters, But Cannot Find Them Among His Contemporaries. Without History The Mountain Chain Of Great Men's Great Moments, Which Runs Through Millennia, Could Not Stand Clearly And Vividly Before Me.