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Man, when he can afford to injure no one, places faith generally in the strength of his own strength, in the strength of his conquerors, in his own morality. But what binds strongest? What cords seem almost unbreakable? In the case of nations ruled by strong and unintelligible tradition, by whom questioning is impossible, how weak is the maternal affection, how dependent nature is upon man!—But are there not reasons to be on our guard against the man who is called an Eliminator and who, in the last rays of the setting sun, rises from the grave of the moral and religious notions that have theretofore kept mankind from the truly great, like the gloomy pre-mortem of the philosopher. Therefore, there is left quite ignored the great, far-away father of the world, who wishes his little Ego would rest easy and forgetful sleep.