You haven't, any of you, the courage either to kill or to flog a man. But the huge machinery of the State quells the individual and makes him decline to be answerable for his own deed (obedience, loyalty, etc.).
Everything that a man does in the service of the State is against his own nature. Similarly, everything he learns in view of future service of the State. This result is obtained through division of labour (so that responsibility is subdivided too):—
The legislator—and he who fulfils the law.
The teacher of discipline—and those who have grown hard and severe under discipline.
719.
A division of labour among the emotions exists inside society, making individuals and classes produce an imperfect, but more useful, kind of soul. Observe how every type in society has become atrophied with regard to certain emotions with the view of fostering and accentuating other emotions.
Morality may be thus justified:—
Economically,—as aiming at the greatest possible use of all individual power, with the view of preventing the waste of exceptional natures.
Æsthetically,—as the formation of fixed types, and the pleasure in one's own.
Politically,—as the art of bearing with the severe divergencies of the degrees of power in society.