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 ‘’We grow moral not because we are moral.’’—The submission to morals may be either slavish or vain, selfinterested, resigned, gloomily fantastic, thoughtless, or all act of despair, like the submission to a price: but it is nothing moral in itself.

‘’Transformation of morals.’’—There is a constant mending and moiling going on in morals—the result of successful crimes (to which, for instance, belong all innovations in moral thinking).

‘’Where we all are irrational.’—’We still draw conclusions from opinions which we consider erroneous, from doctrines in which we have lost faith through our feelings.

‘’Waking from a dream.’’—Noble and wise people once believed in the music of the spheres : noble and wise