Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities§380
Systematic falsification of history so that it may present a proof of the moral valuations.
The decline of a people and corruption.
The rise of a people and virtue.
The zenith of a people (“its culture”) regarded as the result of high moral excellence.
Systematic falsification of great men, great creators and great periods. The desire is to make faith that which distinguishes great men: whereas carelessness in this respect, scepticism, “immorality”, the right to repudiate a belief, belongs to greatness (Caesar, Frederick the Great, Napoleon; but also Homer, Aristophanes, Leonardo, Goethe). The principal fact their “free will” is always suppressed.
Thus bona fide pseudo-historian David Barton.