XXVI

Creative, organizing, value-creating is only the Master-Will: it is the primary moral force; without it, no social structure comes into being. The Slave-Will, on the other hand, is only something secondary, a revolt, a mere counter-action against that building Master-Will.

The Master-Caste commands and obeys;—the oppressed caste only obeys. The born masters follow their instinct by commanding and obeying their own commands;—the oppressed act against their instinct by obeying.

To do something against or without instinct is the true sign of décadence decline/decay.

If, on the other hand, a person's activity moves entirely in the direction of his instincts, he is on the path of ascending life.

What happens between caste and caste also happens inside the individual human being: the moral person is not a unity, but a plurality of diverse and varying-aged drives, as they are inherited from the past generational lines of the father and the mother. There are two kinds of education:—the one, which is usually understood by this word, takes place in the life of the individual; the other, which only the farsighted see, took place for the most part in the life of the ancestors. The development of a human being into a task, a profession, a skill, a character requires an unceasing internal commanding and obeying, a nurturing, breeding, and strengthening of one kind of drive, and a silencing and withering of the other. Everything spiritual and moral has its correlate in the physical constitution of the human being (—ultimately, it is this physique itself). Education for a certain virtue is the exercise (strengthening) of certain physical organs and the leaving-undeveloped of the counteracting organs—education is, in some way, a change in the plasticity of certain body organs. How, then, do "mental properties," virtues, and aptitudes "inherit" themselves? — Heredity means: the "young" is modeled after the parents in the plasticity of its organs—these organs, when they start functioning, will again function similarly.