, and altruistic acts, simply because, as a sheer matter of habit, they were praised as good, came also to be felt as good⁠—as though they contained in themselves some intrinsic goodness.” The thing is obvious:⁠—this initial derivation contains already all the typical and idiosyncratic traits of the English psychologists⁠—we have “utility,” “forgetting,” “habit,” and finally “error,” the whole assemblage forming the basis of a system of values, on which the higher man has up to the present prided himself as though it were a kind of privilege of man in general. This pride must be brought low, this system of values must lose its values: is that attained?

Now the first argument that comes ready to my hand is that the real homestead of the concept “good” is sought and located in the wrong place: the judgment “good” did not