Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
I: Criticism of Religion§237 On one side there are the serious, the dignified, and reflective people: and on the other the barbarous, the unclean and the irresponsible beasts: it is merely a question of taming animals and in this case the tamer must be hard, terrible and awe-inspiring, at least to his beasts.
All essential requirements must be imposed upon the unruly creatures with almost brutal distinctness, i.e., that is to say, magnified a thousand times. Even the fulfilment of the requirement must be presented in the coarsest way possible, so that it may command respect, as in the case of the spiritualisation of the Brahmins.
* * * The struggle with the rabble and the herd. If any degree of tameness and order has been reached, the chasm separating these purified and regenerated people from the terrible remainder must have been bridged –. This chasm is a means of increasing self-respect in higher castes and of confirming their belief in that which they represent, hence the Chandala. Contempt and its excess are perfectly correct psychologically, that is to say, magnified a hundred times, so that it may at least be felt.