The Jews made the attempt to prevail, after two of their castes—the warrior and the agricultural castes, had disappeared from their midst.
In this sense they are the "castrated people": they have their priests and then—their Chandala....
How easily a disturbance occurs among them—an insurrection of their Chandala. This was the origin of Christianity.
Owing to the fact that they had no knowledge of warriors except as their masters, they introduced enmity towards the nobles, the men of honour, pride, and power, and the ruling classes, into their religion: they are pessimists from indignation....
Thus they created a very important and novel position: the priests in the van of the Chandala—against the noble classes....
Christianity was the logical conclusion of this movement: even in the Jewish priesthood, it still scented the existence of the caste, of the privileged and noble minority—it therefore did away with priests.
Christ is the unit of the Chandala who removes the priest ... the Chandala who redeems himself....
That is why the French Revolution is the lineal descendant and the continuator of Christianity— it is characterised by an instinct of hate towards castes, nobles, and the last privileges.
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The "Christian Ideal" put on the stage with Jewish astuteness—these are the fundamental psychological forces of its "nature":—