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and there: those moments and marvelous experiences when a great power has voluntarily come to a halt before the boundless and infinite⁠—when a superabundance of refined delight has been enjoyed by a sudden checking and petrifying, by standing firmly and planting oneself fixedly on still trembling ground. Proportionateness is strange to us, let us confess it to ourselves; our itching is really the itching for the infinite, the immeasurable. Like the rider on his forward panting horse, we let the reins fall before the infinite, we modern men, we semi-barbarians⁠—and are only in our highest bliss when we⁠— are in most danger.