116 Herd-Instinct . Wherever we meet with a morality we find a valuation and order of rank of the human impulses and activities. By morality the individual is taught to become a function of the herd, and to ascribe to himself value only as a function.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
The Herd's Sting of Conscience . In the longest and remotest ages of the human race there was quite a different sting of conscience from that of the present day. At present one only feels responsible for what one intends and for what one does, and we have our pride in ourselves. All our professors of jurisprudence start with this sentiment of individual independence and pleasure, as if the source of right had taken its rise here from the beginning. But throughout the longest period in the life of mankind there was nothing more terrible to a person than to feel himself independent.