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. . .
