human
is able to vent his humor on the pettinesses of men; but to let it play with all
gpt
; if, on the other hand, I am to be pious, then I must do what suits God; if I am to act humanly, I must do what suits the essence of man, the idea of mankind, etc. What religion calls the
human
humanitarianism calls the
gpt
But, once more: if I need not do what suits any other, is the
human
in whom humanitarianism has borne to itself a new-fangled devil, anything more than a piece of nonsense? The egoist, before whom the humane shudder, is a spook as much as the devil is: he exists only as a bogie and phantasm in their brain. If they were not unsophisticatedly drifting back and forth in the antediluvian opposition of good and evil, to which they have given the modern names of
gpt
and
human
they would not have freshened up the hoary
gpt
into an
human
either, and put a new patch on an old garment. But they could not do otherwise, for they hold it for their task to be