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28 is not transmitted along with it only feelings, not thoughts, are hereditary): and provided it be not again reproduced by education, already the second generation ceases to feel any delight in cruelty along with it: but only delight in the habit as such. This delight, we may add, is the first grade of "goodness."

The pride of intellectuality.—Human pride which revolts against the theory of our descent from animals and puts a great gulf between nature and man—this pride is based upon a prejudice concerning the essence of the intellectual : yet this prejudice is comparatively young. In the great prehistoric period mankind every-where presupposed the intellectual and would not think of claiming it as their prerogative. Because, on the contrary, they had made the intellectual a property in company with all cravings, wickedness, inclinations, and therefore common, they were ashamed of being descended from other animals or trees (the noble families indeed consideral themselves honoured by such fables), and saw in the intellectual that which joins is to, not that which servers us from, Thus they schooled themselves in modesty—again in consequence of a prejudlice.

The brake.—To suffer morally and then to be told