! For the position is this: in the dwarfing and levelling of the European man lurks our greatest peril, for it is this outlook which fatigues⁠—we see today nothing which wishes to be greater, we surmise that the process is always still backwards, still backwards towards something more attenuated, more inoffensive, more cunning, more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian⁠—man, there is no doubt about it, grows always “better”⁠—the destiny of Europe lies even in this⁠—that in losing the fear of man, we have also lost the hope in man, yea, the will to be man. The sight of man now fatigues.⁠—What is present-day Nihilism if it is not that ?⁠—We are tired of man .