THE ANTICHRIST
By
Friedrich Nietzsche
Translation: H.L. Mencken
3.
The
problem that I set here is not what shall replace
mankind in the order of living
creatures (--man is an end--): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future.
This more valuable type has appeared often enough in the past: but always as a happy accident, as an exception, never as
deliberately willed. Very often it has been precisely the most feared;
hitherto it has been almost the
terror of
terrors ;--and out of that
terror the contrary type has been willed, cultivated and attained: the
domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick brute-man--the
Christian. . .