In the stream. R.J. Hollingdale transl. When asses are needed. As soon as corruption sets in anywhere superstition becomes rank. But what is generally overlooked is that the ancient national energy and national passion that became gloriously visible in war and warlike games have now been transmuted into countless private passions and have merely become less visible.
Corruption is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people.
The sage shook his head and smiled. For it is man who creates for himself the image of woman, and woman forms herself according to this image. That is the law of the sexes - truly, a hard law for women. The youth, however, did not follow him. The greatest danger that always hovered over humanity and still hovers over it is the eruption of madness - which means the eruption of arbitrariness in feeling, seeing and hearing, the enjoyment of the mind's lack of discipline, the joy in human unreason.