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and more profound.”⁠—“Stronger, more evil, and more profound?” I asked in horror. “Yes,” he said again, “stronger, more evil, and more profound; also more beautiful”⁠—and thereby the tempter-god smiled with his halcyon smile, as though he had just paid some charming compliment. One here sees at once that it is not only shame that this divinity lacks;⁠—and in general there are good grounds for supposing that in some things the Gods could all of them come to us men for instruction. We men are⁠—more human.⁠—