ally for the ascetic ideal, and for the very reason that it is the ally which is most unconscious, most automatic, most secret, and most subterranean! They have been playing into each other’s hands up to the present, have these “poor in spirit” and the scientific opponents of that ideal (take care, by the by, not to think that these opponents are the antithesis of this ideal, that they are the rich in spirit⁠—that they are not ; I have called them the hectic in spirit). As for these celebrated victories of science; there is no doubt that they are victories