The dictates of fairness, however, require that we should all the more emphasise the fact that this remedy is applied with a good conscience , that the ascetic priest has prescribed it in the most implicit belief in its utility and indispensability;⁠—often enough almost collapsing in the presence of the pain which he created;⁠—that we should similarly emphasise the fact that the violent physiological revenges of such excesses, even perhaps the mental disturbances, are not absolutely inconsistent with the general tenor of this kind of remedy; this remedy, which, as we have shown previously, is not for the purpose of healing diseases, but of fighting the unhappiness of that depression, the alleviation and deadening of which was its object. The object was consequently achieved. The keynote by which the ascetic priest was enabled to get every kind of agonising and ecstatic music to play on the fibres of the human soul⁠—was, as everyone knows, the exploitation of the feeling of “ guilt