4. The love of the sexes is a means to an ideal (it is the striving of a being to perish through his opposite). The love for a suffering deity.
5. Procreation is the holiest of all things. Pregnancy, the creation of a woman and a man, who wish to enjoy their unity, and erect a monument to it by means of a child.
6. Pity as a danger. Circumstances must be created which enable everyone to be able to help himself, and which leave him to choose whether he would be helped.
7. Education must be directed at making men evil, at developing their inner devil.
8. Inner war as “development”
9. “The maintenance of the species,” and the thought of eternal recurrence.
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Principal doctrine. We must strive to make every stage one of perfection, and rejoice therein,—we must make no leaps!
In the first place, the promulgation of laws. After the Superman the doctrine of eternal recurrence will strike us with horror: Now it is endurable.
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